Re: [tied] Re: the bee

On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 21:48:34 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>>
>> When lenited, palatal [l^] rather frequently turns into the palatal
>> semivowel [j]. In many orthographies the spelling is <i> or <y>, but
>> don't confuse letters with sounds -- in this particular context these
>> letters stand for non-syllabic vowel-like sounds. Now please move
>> aside to some quiet corner and contemplate what has been said so far
>>
>> Piotr
>
>
>Very nice. There is an /i/ or kind of /i/ but never an /e/.
>With this you got me indeed to move in a corner since there will never
>be an "ke" from a Latin "cl" ( clavis > cheie)
>I am moving to think about.

You can stop thinking. It's already been explained. Latin <clave>
gives Macedo-Romanian <kl^ae>. This becomes <kl^ee> > <kyee> > <keye>
in Northern Romanian, with Umlaut a > e after palatal /l^/ similar to
u > i as we see in închid < înkl^ud < includo.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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