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

03-02-04 21:40, alex wrote:

> I am sorry to contradict you Piotr, but there is no *drEktu in Proto-Balkan
> Romance. At least not in the one people assume gave Romanian. Why I say
> that?
> Because in Old Romanian there is stil used the forms "dãrept" and
> "dãreptate". The syncope of "ã" is recent, very recent, 200 years maybe.

If so, then <dãrept> is simply the regular reflex of unsyncopated
*derEktu-. Vulgar Latin had both, and the syncope could have happened at
any stage.

Piotr