Re: [tied] Live and Life

----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 11:27 PM
Subject: [tied] Live and Life


> So, we have in Albanian i gjallë `live' and gjellë `jetë' from PIE *solwo-, compared again with Greek holos `whole'

<gjallë> and <ngjall> 'heal, revive' are so derived by everybody. The connection you're suggesting looks possible to me, though the formal details would need to be cleared out. For example, how do you account for the vocalism of <gjellë>? What kind of derivative is it? Dictionaries give 'dish, plate' rather than 'meal' or 'life' as the primary meaning of <gjellë>; is that correct according to native speakers? If so, the connection is less likely and the likelihood of a loan from Slavic increases.

> and Latin salus `health, a sound or health condition' (see also Greek hemi-, Latin semi-, Alb. gjym-ës; Greek hypnos, Latin somnum, Albanian gjumë; Greek hals, Latin sal, Alb. gjelb-të; gjollë; Greek hepta [should be <hex> '6'! -- PG], Latin sex, Alb. gjashtë; Greek haema, Latin sanguis, Alb. gjak, etc. I believe that in some previus message I give much more examples, but this is new one and it seems that we have a rule about some phonologic correspondences of Greek /h/, Latin /s/ and Albanian /gj/. Do we have to deal with so-called "s- mobile" in Albanian Language, for /*s/ gives at most Albanian /sh/ or /th/.

PIE *s- > Alb. gj- (when prevocalic) is a safely established sound-change. Initial sh- for *s- is found in some clusters, especially *st- > sht- (also when produced by vowel loss: *septm. + *-t- > *sëtát- > *stat- > shtatë), while *sk-, *sk^- > h-/ç-. In some other clusters, e.g. *sn-, the sibilant was lost. Another curious (and somewhat uncertain) change is *sw- > d- (not in *swe, where the outcome is always v-), as perhaps in *sworgH-eje- 'be ill' > dergjem.

*s- > th- (inasmuch as it occurs sporadically in inherited words) probably results from dissimilation in words originally containing two fricatives close to each other, e.g. *su:s 'pig' > thi, or *saus-n-jo: 'to dry' > thanj ~ thaj.


Konushevci



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