Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
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> The question is: why is the singular not *ghetzã or *ghietzã
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
the only diphtongation rule in Rom:
"o" > "oa" and "e" > "ea" when in next syllable an "e" or an "ã"
follows.
since the word was an *ghetsa one can just have "gheatsã" and nothing
else.
Interesting should be the question: why plural in "-uri" and not in
"-e" ?
Mr Stanca came with a lot of examples where feminine words which ends
in "-tsã" make the plural in "-uri".
But words as "viatsã" (life) does not make the plural in "-uri",
either in "-e" but as masculine nouns in "-i", hence the plural is
"vietsi".
Alex