Re: [tied] Re: Indo-Iranian

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 23:44:28 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

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>From: "Miguel Carrasquer" <mcv@...>
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>The combination /kW/ + front vowel gives /ke/, /ki/ in Spanish and
>Catalan,
>but /c^e/, /c^i/ in Romanian. Compare the interrogative Cat./Cast.
><que> ~
>Rom. <ce> < Latin quod "what".
>
>quod > ce? :-)

You're right. I comitted a Western Romancism. Quod and quid completely
merged in Western Romance (also with masc. acc. quem (partially) and fem.
nom. quae), so it doesn't really matter if we cite the Latin as quid or
quod. However, Romanian maintains the distinction between ce < quem, quid
and cã < quod.

>you put Spanish and Romanian forms versus French and Italian forms . On
>another hand you ignore Albanian "ata".

Well, on the one hand we have aquel, aquell, quello, acel / aqueste,
aquest, questo, acest, with exact correspondences also in the feminine,
oblique and plural forms.

On the other hand we have ata.

I rest my case.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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