Re: [tied] Re: substratum

26-06-03 19:59, alex wrote:

>>> ... we can take "mazãre" and "modhullë" ...

> We observe that the word is not identicaly in Rom. and Alb. They have
> different suffixes.

They are very similar, though. Remember that the substrate in Romanian
is Albanian-like but it isn't modern Albanian, let alone its literery
form. After 1500 years or so some small differences in suffixation can
be excused :-). Cimochowski reports several dialectal forms from
Albanian, including <modh-në> with a still different suffix.

> The next observation should be that there is no way to get an /o/ to /a/
> in Rom.

But Modern Albanian /o/ may derive from earlier *a:, which became /a/ in
Romanian. The unsuffixed base was *ma:d- once upon a time.

Piotr