Re: How Old is the n-rothacism in Romanian & Albanian dialects

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

> If this Dacian prope-dila/proce-dila has something to do with the
> word for 5 (five) 'cinque folium' (that is very probable: see p-
> Celtic pempedula) the presence of an r inside, in place of the
> expected n =>
> *penc^e (Alb. pes&) make me think that we have 'a kind of' n-
> rothacism in these Dacian words...
>
> Next knowing, that the n-Rothacism (it's true only the intervocalic
> one) was largely spread in some Romanian (included Daco-Romanian ->
> retracted today) & Albanian Dialects => it's source can be some
> Dacian Dialects
>
>
> Marius
>

mmmmmm.. how qould you like to connect phoneticaly the word for 5
with "*prope/proce" here? It seems to me there is a need for many
transformations to get a *proce/prope from the IE root.

Alex