From: alex
Message: 28251
Date: 2003-12-09
>> a) -Latin tres cannot give trei in Rom. The "i" is not explainableVegliote have had stil "tra". Miguel is wrong here about EasternRomance
>> trough Latin tres
>
> Of course it is. The simples derivation is that shown by Miguel: VLat.
> tres > Eastern Romance *trei > Romanian trei. There are lots of
> parallel cases, so the correspondence between <tre:s> and <trei> is
> well supported and systematic.
>I am done with it.
> See above. And now you've had your fun, so please stop it.
>
> Piotr