Re: [tied] Re:

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 27663
Date: 2003-11-26

26-11-03 21:32, alex wrote:

> I fail to see here _how_ Latin "eu" > "i" keeping the stress. Assuming
> the "eu" > "ieu" one _must_ accept that the stress of Latin word
> "calcaneus" was on "e", thing which is not acceptable if I am not wrong.

No!!! ***Unstressed*** -eu- fell together with -iu- [-ju-], and the
glide palatalised the preceding consonant.

Piotr