From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 30618
Date: 2004-02-03
> 03-02-04 21:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:complex
>
> > Hello Alex,
> > I want to thank you for this presentation.
> > It shows that the situation of Albanian /di/ is much more
> > that Miguel and Piotr presented here... (related to the stabilityof
> > 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