Re: [tied] schwa [Re: Androphobia]

Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Inter (and intra) are prepositions, which are never accented. Eastern
> Romance (Italian and Romanian) share the tendency to delete the
> initial vowel in such prepositions. That's why we have Italian
> entrare, entro vs. tra (*intra > *ntra > tra). Cf. also stra- (extra
>> 'stra), fra (infra > 'nfra > fra), Southern Italian 'n- < in,
> literary Italian nel, nello, nella ('n illu, 'n illa). We have the
> same in Romanian: inter > 'ntre, in > 'n, etc.
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

and you have the Albanian "ndër.I wonder here why "d" did not became
woiced then in Albanian as expected.
Or you thingk that in the Latin "inter" was devoiced the "t" in
Albanian?I guess these curious tendencies of Estern Romance is indeed to
put on the account of the substrate.