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

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> In Albanian it is a group of vowels and with, as I show, very high
> distribution. So, be it diphthong in Latin or not, it was treated in
> Albanian as a group of vowels.

Well, by the time Lat. ce:pa (thus, rather than <caepa>) and caelum were
borrowed into Albanian, the vowel was already Balkan Romance */e/ or
*/E/ and was treated accordingly in Albanian, /E/ being equated with
native *iä (<je>) and developing regularly into /ie/ in <qiell>. I can't
see a group of vowels in either case.

Piotr