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

03-02-04 21:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> Hello Alex,
> I want to thank you for this presentation.
> It shows that the situation of Albanian /di/ is much more complex
> that Miguel and Piotr presented here... (related to the stability of
> Latin /di/ in Albanian).

Nothing of the kind. Lat. di: > PAlb. *di (with loss of *d if
intervocalic, but that has nothing to do with the quality of *i).

Lat. <di>/<ti> were realised as Proto-Balkan Latin *dj/*tj before a
vowel (i.e., the original /i/ became non-syllabic), giving *3^/*c^ >
Modern Albanian z/s, as in servítiu- > *servétju- --> Alb. *s&rbec^- >
shërbesë, or in rádia- > *rádja- --> Alb. *rä3^- > rreze.

Piotr