Re: [tied] di:rigere

04-02-04 21:57, altamix wrote:

> just for helping you out, there is no di:rigere > dërgoj.
> Here you have incidentaly the "dë" in that position due metathesis.
> The latin "di:rigo" > "dregoj > dërgoj.
> For this situation you have as testimony the Romanian word "drege" which is
> the same as Alb. "dërgoj" both supposed to have as etymon Latin "di:rigere".

Actually, I suspect the VLat. reflex of di:rigere (merged with
de:rigere) > *dereg- may have oscillated between *drég-/*derg-'
depending on the stress pattern (different reductions rather than actual
metathesis). *derg- --> *d&rg-ónj works better for Albanian, since it
accounts for the preservation of VLat. -g- (one would expect it to be
lost between vowels). I don't know, however, if other Romance
developments support my reconstruction, and if not, what they suggest
instead.

Piotr