[tied] Re: IE prefix "*s"

I want to complete that 850 is not the final number of Latin Words in
Romanian...

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> Hello Miguel,
> I try to find other Romanian word derived from Latin in Romanian
> that have been transform like :
> sca -> *scâ -> *scâi -> schi (or similar)
>
> I couldn't find another one (from a list of about 850 words (I am
> working to obtain the full list of Latins words in Romanian))
>
> The Romanian '-chi-' is obtained only from '-clV-' or '-culV-'.
>
> It could be an issue with its derivation from 'ex-cambiare' ?
>
> Best Regards,
> marius
>
>
>
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:40:18 +0000, Richard Wordingham
> > <richard.wordingham@...> wrote:
> >
> > >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> > >> The Rom. word "schimba", unlike the Romance examples you gave
> here
> > >> cannot derive from *ex-cambiare.
> > >
> > >Indeed, for even if [mbj] simply becomes [mb], we should get
> *scâmba.
> >
> > *excambiare should give *scâmbia. Subsequently, probably due to
> the same
> > metathesis that we have in *abia > aiba, we got *scâimbá >

schimbá.

> >
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