From: alex
Message: 27664
Date: 2003-11-26
> 26-11-03 21:32, alex wrote:***Alex is very bulversed, thus he asks:
>
>> 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