Re: [tied] Re: substratum

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> 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

could an /e/ become too /o/ in Albanian ? I think now at Alb.
"mollë"(apple) and Rom."mãr"(apple), latin "melum"(apple)?

Alex