From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 30682
Date: 2004-02-05
>04-02-04 21:57, altamix wrote:In Iberian Romance, dirigere was replaced, as usual, by dirigi:re, so
>
>> 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.