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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> ah! what a surprise, maybe the "mirë" has too an inherited "r" there.
What's <mirë> got to to do with it? But yes, as far as I know, it has
an inherited /r/; so does any word which has /r/ in Geg as well as in
Tosk. You can't know the difference if you limit your attention to
Tosk-based standard Albanian.
> OK since you assume there is h2ner-
I don't "assume" it. It's a very safe reconstruction, not my own, but
of course I accept it.
> then wherefrom would you derives the Rom, /SerbCr/Bulg forms? From
Slavic eventualy?
Perhaps. It looks like a nursery reduplication anyway, and the Slavic
lexicon is full of such. But words of this kind can be created at any
time, anywhere.
> Or do we have to take a look at an another curiosity like Latin
"serenus" versus Romanian "senin"? This will shows too an r > n . I
guess we cannot eyplain the "nenja", "nena", "nene" without the
Albanian "njeri" it doesnt matter how the transformations are.
What do you mind?
Nonsense. If the derivation doesn't work, one has to abandon it and
look for something better. Trying to save it at no matter what the
cost only gets you deeper into self-delusion.
Piotr