From: alex
Message: 29782
Date: 2004-01-19
>> therefore more likely that <edh> is a regular reflex of inheritedexactly how it looks today: iez
>> *h2aig^-. Rom. ied (pl. iezi) is not compatible with such an
> etymology,
>> but it's perfectly compatible with Lat. (h)aedum/(h)aedi:
>>
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/27434
>>
>> Linguistics _constrains_ speculation rather than "allow a lot".
>
> If Romanian had borrowed the precursor of Albanian <edh> from the
> source of its Albanian-like substrate, what would the borrowed word
> look like now?
>
> Richard.