Re: the bee

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
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In best case, liquid-plus-palatal glide should be derived in palatal
glide: fëmijë < Lat. familia `child, baby', bijë < bilja `doughter',
bujar < boljar (cf. Buzmi bujar `generous Buzmi"), both wll attested
in different dialects , even Slavic nevolja > nevojë `need'

Konushevci