Re: [tied] Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian

Richard Wordingham wrote:

>> di:a:na ~ zânã (probabl. from Latin Diana)
>
> Short /i/! General rule for Classical Latin is that a vowel before
> another vowel is short. Exceptions are loans ane sequences of three
> vowels, such as the genitive and dative _die:i:_ of _die:s_ 'day'.

Excuse me. I pasted from the cell with "OldLatin" for Diana; the Classic
form is "dia:na", OldLatin is "Di:a:na"

> If you discount the words starting with the prefixes di:- and dis-,
> there are, in my pocket dictionary,
>
> 6 or 7 words starting di: - di:co: 'say', Di:do:, di:rus 'ominous',
> di:thyrambus 'dithyramb', di:(ve)s, di:(vi)t- 'rich' (and its
> compounds), di:vus 'god, divine' and its compounds, di:vum 'sky'.
> Not a rich haul.

In my small dictionary , if we keep out the prefix "di:-" there are some
more:
di:gestion, di:gnitas, di:gressio, di:ligens, di:lucidus, di:luculum,
di:midus, di:reptio:, di:ritas, di:rus, etc..
it seems they are a lot. none of them in Romanian. Either in Albanian.

>
> There are a great many words starting di- either: Dia:na,
> die:s 'day', Dindymus, Dipylon, Dirce:, disco: 'teach',
> discus 'qoit', a number of words in dic- - compounds of di:co:
> (formed from the weak grade, so a short vowel), diu: 'long time',
> and a few Greek words in dia(:)- or dio(:)-. Again, not very common.
>
> Richard.

So much about it. There are plenty of words and just 3 of them here....

Alex