Re: [tied] numeral

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

> Latin tre > Vegliot "tra",

There is no "Latin tre".
IF
Italian corresponds to Vegliot
re ra
THEN
Italian should correspond to Vegliot
tre X

X = tra, yupeee! it works!

> there is one, absolutely no one example of Latin /e:/ becoming in
> Rom. "ei".

It is not the /e:/ which becomes /ei/ (actually [ey]), but the
final -s who does that.

> The only one where you want to find it is the 3 "trei". It seems
> it is enough to make a rule out of it.

It is a rule in monosyllabic words in Eastern Romance. It is
Italian and Vegliote than Romanian behaving rather exceptional in
this case.

Marius Iacomi