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

On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 22:20:57 +0000, Richard Wordingham
<richard.wordingham@...> wrote:

>--- 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.

I caught that later, in reviewing.

>> 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.

Right.

>> 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:?

I didn't have the imperfect and perfect at hand. Anyway, according to the
normal sound rules, di:xi:, if it weren't for the di > zi development,
would have given one of the Teletubbies.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...