From: altamix
Message: 30638
Date: 2004-02-04
>That is true about the forms with /e/ as well. The forms with "ã" are
> If so. Actually it is not quite like that. Attested old Romanian
> forms are "drept(u)", "derept(u)" and "dirept(u)" (Moldavia) &
> variants, with syncope and without. "dãrept" must be some invention
> based on Southern DR well-known late features (like in "dã", "pã"
> instead of "de", "pe").
>
> Regards,
> Marius Iacomi