Re: [tied] Romanian Development of /st/ (was: Against ... 'Albanian

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 12:52:36 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>> /j/ is regularly lost after /r/: *grEvu > *grievu > greu.
>
>Why did you quote the seemingly simpler development:
>
>"4) /E/ > /ie/, except after /r/ (e.g. *grevum > greu). The /i/
>becomes a feature of the consonant after k/g/t/d: tEstu > tiestU >
>t,est; gElu > gielu > gel)"
>
>in http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/18147 . Was it
>merely for 'simplicity'?

Yes. The Romance development /E/ > /ie/ was presumably a breaking of the
open vowel (/E/ > /íe/, like /O/ > /úo/). The falling diphthong /íe/ later
became the rising diphthong /jé/. Only at the stage /jé/ does
palatalization of the preceding consonant apply. Palatalization of /r/ was
subsequently lost, as it often is.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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