Re: [tied] the bee

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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 11:54 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] the bee



> Latin stressed e gives in Albanian /-je-/ (cf. medicus > mjek 'doctor, physician', magister > mjeshtër 'master', even one Slavic loan prispeti > përspjet 'to arrive suddenly, to pop in').

Not after a stop-plus-liquid cluster, where any diphthongoids have been smoothed, cf. drejtë <-- VLat. drEct- < d(i)rekt-, fre/freri (not *frie) < *fren <-- VLat. frenu- < fre:num.

> Otherwise, _eCC_ > _iCC_ (cf. parens, -tis > prind 'parents', gens, -
tis > gjind 'people'. So, if we accept Latin *meletta as true, we
will have in Albanian m(e)lita, but not (m)bleta.

In your examples, the cluster is /-nt-/ (nasal plus stop). My <sagitta> example shows rather clearly what happened to Lat. -itta. To sum up:

*meletta --> m(ë)ljetë > *bljetë > bletë (loss of glide after /bl-/).

Piotr