Anatoly Guzaev schrieb:
> What do you connote by "ancient Balkans"?
>
> Would you mind telling me more about your Proto-Romanian dz-?
>
> According to my humble opinion, if you are implying that Albanian
> dh- (dhe "earth"; i.e. dh > dz) is akin to former Romanian dz-, it may
> be a pretty weak argument, because there is another word for "earth"
> in Albanian - tokë "earth".
>
>
I am not sure if I get it right but Albanian "dh" has its counterpart in
CommonRomnian "dz". Thus, actually Albanian "dh" correspond to Romanian
"z". I wrote "CommonRomanian" since in nowadays DacoRomanian the "dz"
is very selten, mostly dialectaly to find but it stil persist (
hopefully I am not all to wrong when I say "all") in "all" south
CommonRomanian dialects as Aromanian , Meglenoromanian or Istroromanian.
this "dh" in "dhe" is just only one example out of many correspondances
we have. What should be weak here? The name of "Dyonisios"? Assuming it
should ave persisted as name in the both languages, the actually output
in Romanian should have been "*Zãunish" and in Albanian presumably
"*Dhunësh"
best regards
Alexandru Moeller