Albanian pre and Romanian prada (was: Question on Albanian sy)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
> wrote:

> > Will pre (pre:) 'prey, quarry' <
> > praeda satisfy you? And this is my last word on this sub-thread.
> Sorry,
> > but I'm fed up with it.

> Piotr, the Latin Latin word was praeda and the transition was

via

> a hiatus : Balkan Latin *pra-a-da (Rom pradã) => (the trace of

hiatus

> is still visible in Romanian when I pronounce it correctly: pra'a-
> dã). So the word was tri-syllabic for sure...

I am not convinced.

1. praeda > pre:da (Rural Latin)

Middle English _preie_ from Old French suggests a Proto-Romance high
vowel /e:/ rather than a low vowel /E:/.

2. pre:da > *preada (Rom. breaking before a)

4. *preada > _prada_

I'm not sure about this last change, but it might explain your
hiatus. ea > a after labials is a definite change, but I don't know
how it's affected by an intervening liquid.

Richard.