From: alex
Message: 28521
Date: 2003-12-16
> 15-12-03 19:44, alex wrote:the words "abia" is as old as the word "avea"
>
>> Now I wonder at what you think. We have a supposed form *abja for
>> explaing "aibi, aibã" from "habeat" but we have a really word "abia"
>> which remains "abia" and does not became "aibe". How is this to
>> explain? Which should be the true here? The realy form which exist
>> or the supposed one you postulate?
>
> Why should a Modern Romanian word be affected by a change that
> operated centuries ago?
> Anyway, whatever the etymology of <abia>, itsDo you intend to say that unstressed "e" or "i" determined the
> first syllable is unstressed, and i-diphthongisation from
> palatalisation occurs under stress only. To quote Miguel, "As usual,
> you forget to take the accent into account."
>
> Piotr