Re: [tied] Re: Live and Life

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20895
Date: 2003-04-09

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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:16 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Live and Life



> Verb. shkel 'to walk, to step, to tread' < shkal, preserved in
compound bukëshkalë 'ungrateful; wretch'; djalë "boy", but plural
djem < djelm "boys".

These are not special developments of syllabic liquids but plain cases of umlauted /a/, as in <gjel> 'cock' < Lat. galli: (singularised in Alabanian). Syllabic *[r.] gave Alb. ri; the development of *[l.] is uncertain, though Alb. li can probably be regarded as the regular outcome. The most obvious example, *wl.kWos > ujk ~ ulk seems to show a special development of syllabic liquids (probably conditioned by a preceding labial consonant).

Piotr