[tied] Re:

From: m_iacomi
Message: 27635
Date: 2003-11-26

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" wrote:

>> For the ending, the evolution is perfectly similar to
>> "calcaneu(s)" > *cãlcãn'u > cãlcâi.
>
> :-)))
>
> You try to explain a irregularity trough an another irregularity
> making out a possiblitiy :-))

There is no irregularity. The word "cãlcân'" is alive in Banat
subdialect. Regular evolution of "n'" (phonetically written on
cybalist [n^]) is towards a iot in most DR speaking area.

> Against your equivalence of calcaneus/cotoneus > cãlcâi/gutui
> (beside the phonetism) speaks the stress. The word "cãlcâ'i"
> has the stress on "â", the word "gutuí" has the stress on "i".

Have you had some strong drink before stating the stress is on
(final) "i" in "gutui"?! The word is /gutúy/, the "i" does not
even note a vowel but the non-vocalic element of the diphthong
which cannot be stressed. I can't imagine a native Romanian
speaker stressing "gutuí" except for fun, by inventing an ad-hoc
verb possibly meaning `to transform [something] into a quince`.

Marius Iacomi