Re: [tied] Goats

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 29788
Date: 2004-01-19

19-01-04 04:48, Richard Wordingham wrote:

> 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?

Assuming that the precursor was *e:dz in Roman times (from still earlier
*aidz'(a)- < *h2aig^(o)-), I'd expect Modern Romanian *ez.

Piotr