Re: [tied] Laryngeal theory as an unnatural

> Abdullah, when exactly the Latin /o/ become /u/ in Albanian Loans?

I got

> one idea seing your assumption about perception as prefixes but

first I

> need to verify some things. This is why I ask.
>
> To avoid people searching about the rules Lat > Rom, I give here the
> rule exposed by Miguel for Latin /o/ & /o:/ and its situations when
> become /u/ in Rom.:
>
> 1) /o/ > /u/ before /n/, /nC/ ( bun, munte), but not

before /m/, /mn/

> ( omn, somn). Exception : nume > no:men ( perhaps due numeru >

num.r)

>
> I would like to add now that even the word "cumnat" shows that /o/
> /u/
> before /mn/ thing which was excluded initialy by Miguel.
>
> Alex

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Dear Alex,
I and you must agree that unstressed /o/ before nasal /n/ had changed
in /u/: consobrinus > kushërini, conora < corona > kurorë, conventum

> kuvend, co(g)natus > kunat, consecrare > kungoj, etc.

Konushevci