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

Hello Piotr,
You wrote:
" 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."

You are right. I apologize here for my mistake. Sorry.

Best Regards,
marius alexandru



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 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