Re: [tied] Re: albanian prefix =?UNKNOWN?Q?=22st=EBr-=22?=

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20979
Date: 2003-04-13

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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 11:24 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: albanian prefix "stër-"


> In Albanian exists also verb sos 'to burn up', probably from o-grade
> of PIE *kwekw, an assimilated form of PIE *pekw- 'to cook, to
> ripen' - Alb. pjek.

This looks completely fanciful to me. To begin with, Alb. /o/ can't be derived from the *o-grade of a CVC root.

Piotr