Re: [tied] All of creation in Six and Seven

From: alex
Message: 27346
Date: 2003-11-17

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> Bovine excrement. Of course they have undergone all the Romanian
> changes (vowel diphthongisations, the rhotacism of *l > r, etc.) and
> have not been exempt from any of them. They look archaic when
> compared with their Albanian cognates only in the sense that they
> have not undergone the more recent ALBANIAN changes. I hope you are
> able to understand why.
>
> Piotr


the rotacisation of "l" is assumed to be OK ( is it? see Alb. kullon
verus Latin curare), the diphtongation you are talking about is even
today living (avion- avioane).
We will see more when we will speak about "satem" words in the
substratual vocabulary.


Alex