Re: [tied] Re: Crows and Garlands

21-08-03 20:42, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> About Romanian tzarka, I think that it undergoes further
> affricatization, like cioara < Alb. sorra with regular diphthongation
> of stressed o in oa (Alb. gropa > Rom. groapa, Alb. dro 'fear' > Rom.
> droa 'id.').

Rom. /ts/ in <tzarkã> must be explained differently. Rom. /tS/ in
<cioara> is closer to the original sound than Alb. /s/ in sorrë. It is
the latter phoneme that reflects an old affricate (*k^w > PAlb. *c^,
_preserved_ in Romanian and _changed_ in Modern Albanian).

Piotr