From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 20896
Date: 2003-04-09
>cases of umlauted /a/, as in <gjel> 'cock' < Lat. galli:
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> From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
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> > 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
> ujk ~ ulk seems to show a special development of syllabic liquids(probably conditioned by a preceding labial consonant).
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> Piotr