Re: [tied] Re: Albanian pre and Romanian prada

Richard Wordingham wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
> wrote:
>
>> 2. And another question for you : how Latin *abellona (<
>> abellana [nux] see DEX) could give Romanian aluna ?
>>
>> Is somehow via b>zero and next ae>a ?
>
> Yes. Intervocalic Latin <b> and <v> usually drops in Romanian.
> Consequent contraction of the vowels to a single vowel is common - I
> don't claim to know the precise details.
>
> Richard.

it seems you don't and I consider one has not seen the explanation.
There is no "intervocalic "b/v" dropping" see my 3 part article in
balkanika. There is a such image just because one of the vowel is "u",
thus there is a contraction of a later grminate (bu/vu or ub/uv > uu >u)
*abellona will never have any chances to give aluna; the "au-" remains
"au-" in initial position.
thus an *abellona > *aulluna > *aulunã but never "alunã"

See audio - auzi; aurum-aur

Alex