Re: [tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian

03-02-04 20:10, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> I linked Albanian case with ep-Romanians ONLY to signaled that
> Albanians had "some problems" too, with the stability of Lat. /di/ in
> the examples below...
>
> P.S. AT LEAST you could supposed that I know that Lat. directus give
> Rom. drept so it had nothing to do with /3i/...

Well, _none_ of your examples have anything to do with the Romanian
change of Balkan Latin d > 3 /_i, since they involve (Classical) Latin
short /i/ which either yielded Proto-Balkan Romance *e or was syncopated
(as in *drEktu- and *verde-). Nor do they illustrate proto-Albanian
"problems" with /di/. To tell the truth they are totally inappropriate.
I agree with Miguel that the only "problem" here is with your incomplete
understanding of the early Romance developments.

Piotr