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

03-02-04 22:31, alex wrote:

> It is so with respect to "dãrept". And there cannot be any "E" since /i/ >
> /e/. In "directus" we have a short "i".

In unstressed initial syllables, /e/ /e:/ and /i/ all give Rom. ã.

> Vulgar Latin seems have had a lot of thingies. The Rom. general conjunction
> "de" is to see with Alb. "dh" as well and "rectus" is in Germanic too
> "recht", PIE *reg^ ?
> I don't suppose anything more here, just I am very critical with the Vulgar
> Latin which seems to be a very confortable and dilatable notion.

VLat. *d(e)réktu- with an unstable (variably lost) unstressed vowel (as
in English <directly>) accounts for all the Romance reflexes as well as
the Albanian word.

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