Re: [tied] Re: Against the theory of 'Albanian Loans in Romanian'

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 30165
Date: 2004-01-28

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Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 12:46 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Against the theory of 'Albanian Loans in Romanian'


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> Word-finally, as in <abe$> and <hame$>, /s^/ is, I think, a reduced
reflex of *c^, not normally found in this position in Romanian.

> ... "aici", "atunci", "baci", "br�nci", "c�ci, "deci", "beci", etc.
Final /c^/ hasn't the tendence to be reduced to /s^/ in normal
Romanian
(it's only a regional Moldavian feature, with little relevance for the
whole DR area -- "abe$" is even regionalism from Banat -- W Romania)
and
hasn't had historically this tendence.


I was thinking of reduction at a much older stage -- older than the apocope
of unstressed *-i in Romanian. Of course _Modern_ Romanian would easily
accommodate any loans with final /c^/.

Piotr