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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> The whole paradigm can be derived directly from Latin:
>
> dí:cere > zíce(re)
>
> dí:co: > zíc
> dí:ci:s > zíci (dí:ci:s for dí:cis)

So perhaps from Eastern Romance. Not from Latin.

> dí:cit > zíce
> dí:cimus > zícem
> dí:citi:s > zícetzi

But the Latin is dí:citis! Possibly a generalisation of an
alternation -e / -i in the second singular.

> dí:cunt > zíc
>
> dí:cat > zícã
>
> dí:c! > zí
>
> Only the past ptc. zis is not from Lat. di:ctum, but has the

analogical

> ending -s (*di:ssum).

What about the simple perfect _zisei_? Can its stem be derived from
Latin di:xi:?

Richard.