From: alex
Message: 29882
Date: 2004-01-21
>Some examples will be more as welcome here Piotr. I mean such loans from
> Proto-Albanian loans in Romanian give us some indication of the
> pronunciation of the reflexes of *k' and *g' at the time of the
> borrowing: their Modern Romanian reflexes are /c/ ~ /s/ and /z/ (~
> dialectal /3/). Palatalised *kW is reflected as Romanian /c^/. We can
> therefore tentatively assume the following intermediate stages:
>
> *k' > *c > T
> *g' > *3 > D (> d in some instances)
> *kW /+ > *c^ > s
> *gW /+ > *3^ > z
>
> where "/+" means 'in palatalising contexts'.
>
> At an early date, the sequences *k'w and *g'w merged with palatalised
> *kW and *gW (they give the same Modern Albanian reflexes and behave in
> the same way in Romanian borrowings from Proto-Albanian. If
> reconstructed *c^ and *3^ owe their contrast with *c' and *3' to
> cooccurrence of labialisation and palatality in the original
> combination, the following development can be posited: