... Intervocalic <b> or <v> may disappear in Balkan Romance, as a well known evolution (caballus > cal, pavimentum > pãmânt, *expavorere > speria, cubitus >...
... Not all; there were a few lexical exceptions, e.g. <a:scian>, <a:scode> etc. 'to ask' (beside metathesised <a:hs-, a:x- ~ a:cs->). The <e> is frequently...
... The explanation is obvious: in this kind of verb stem the final consonant was analogically retained or restored because it had survived in the basic...
... excuse me but this is mostly wrong derived. The Rom. "cal", Alb. "kalë" are not derived from Latin caballus but they are cognate with Latin "celeres" and...
Alb. <pré:> 'booty, prey' has by all means the pre-from *prae, cf. <nge> 'leisure' from <ngae>, aorist second case singular <pe> 'you saw' is from preform...
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... 'Was analogically retained or restored' ? Are you so sure about this 'was' when you don't have any attested form? at least to say 'maybe it was' or 'it...
... It's not so strange if the development were simply d > D > zero. ... What is the evidence that lenition did not simply occur after a vowel rather than...
... Piotr, regarding Albanian va on Leiden is wrote: "Notes: {1} It is impossible to determine, whether Alb. va is genetically related to Lat. vadum or a...
... If this evolution is so 'well known on your side', maybe you could explain us why the intervocalic b in Romanian abur (<->Alb. avull) is still there? :) ...
... But it IS lost, even in native words, if the second vowel stays! What about cases like Alb. be: 'vow' < *be(d)ë < *bHoidH-ah2 (cf. Lat. foedus)? Piotr...
... You are just recycling your original argument ad nauseam without offering any new evidence. No matter how many such verbs you quote, it's simply more of...
... < snip> ... rule. ... for avoiding a discussion, is the posting of the links to a subject forbidden? If the answer is yes, I have to confess I was not...
... Of course it's highly likely that the <d> of <vjedull> owes its presence there to restoration before a productive suffix. Cimochowski cites the dialectal...
... I don't want to hear it anymore either. Everyone can see for himself the "monologues" presented there. Calling it pseudolinguistic rambling, this is your...
... I don't think *dH- > t- is possible. Isn't this an ancient loan from Greek? The derivatives of <tHu:mos> show that its original meaning was 'smoke', and...
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...
... 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...
... It should be: *bhreu- 'to boil, bubble, effervesce'. Also *bhreHu-/*bhreuH-. Alb. <m-bruj> 'to ferment', derived from prefixed form of zero-grade form...
... I don't like to argue, but how do you explain in this case the Geg variant <kepa>: where do you see /ie/ that will couse probably palatalization of velar...
... ************ Why not we assume that much more straightforward and most likely source is *preu-k 'to hop' (cf. *reug- 'cloud' > Alb. <re>) with compensatory...
... (1) Its Latin origin is likely because reflexes of <praeda> with the same meaning are found throughout the Romance offspring of Latin. Formally and...
... As far as I know, nasalized forms are characteristic only for zero-grade forms, so I can't see how to derive Alb. <re>, without any trace of nasal, from...
... you ... too ... hocus- ... presence ... the ... and ... with ... of ... variant, ... I. Regarding: "dialectal forms <vjedhullë> (the word was originally ...
... you 'like ... I indicated about 5 additional words with their derived forms 3-4 derived form for each of them....showing an intervocalic d that is still...
