*d(e)réktu Issues (was: Late ProtoAlbanian *3 /dz/ = Early ProtoRo

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

> 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.

No. We not only have complications caused by assimilations and the
like (vocalic: _senin_ not *sãrin or *sãnin from Latin se:re:=
nus,
raising before nasals: închide 'shut' from inclu:dere 'shut in'),
but we also have the 'normal' development as in _genunchi_ (regional
_genuchi_) 'knee'. Or is this one too irregular? My understanding
of http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/18207 was that the
this change in unstressed initial syllables only applied after /s/,
a labial or /r/.

> 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.

What vowels are we assuming for Vulgar Latin? Just a E e i au and,
depending on location, o u (East) or O o u (West)?

Richard.