Re: Jordanes

Am 10.11.2010 18:48, schrieb Rick McCallister:

> >
> > > The change "du>diu>3u" does not shows any phonetic troubles if the
> > > "J" was pronounced as a consontant like in Joe.
> >
> > Yes it does, du > dju doesn't make sense.
>
> ***R It happened in British English dune, due where /du/ > /dy/ > /dju/
> > /dzhu/ (the latter in dialect)
>
> But you'd have to posit /u/ > /y/ "ü" in Dacian and I have no idea about
> that
>

I thought here at the fonetic changes which happened in Romanian and in
Albanian. We have u>iu in Albanian and we have a later palatalisation of
"dy" from "diu<du" to "dz"; this "dz" has big chances to become a
consonantal "j" as in Joe. The change is for instance atested in
Romanian where zi > ji (again, beiing necesari an "i" for this change).

"half".


alex