Re: [tied] Re: Albanian "dy"

From: alex
Message: 27245
Date: 2003-11-15

Peter P wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
>> More, maybe should be interesting to see that "trei" was in Greek
> too
>> "trei" and there is no "i" in Lat. "tres". The apparition of "i" in
> doi
>> and "trei" is due analogy to each other ("doi" influenced by "trei"
> and
>> "trei" influenced by "doi"), etc.
>
>> Alex
>
> Latin tria - three. No /i/??
>
> Peter P
>

and where is "e"?:-)))

from that form "tria" you wont get the "trei" in Rom.
Since you mentionated it, in Rom. for saying "the tirth" in feminine is
"a treia"; be sure there is no Latin continuation there since the /i/
never gets an /ei/ in Rom. It is a simply feminine "-a" suffixation of
"trei"

Alex