From: alex_lycos
Message: 21250
Date: 2003-04-24
>> Very nice. There is an /i/ or kind of /i/ but never an /e/Beside making any phonetical analyses here it ought to know if the
>> 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
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...