[tied] Re: about the wrong roots

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

> Anyway, since PIE *pekWo: 'cook' is reflected in Albanian as

<pjek>

> > 'bake' (with the expected regular developments and no labiovelar
> > assimilation), it makes no sense to insist that it's _also_
> reflected as
> > <sos> 'finish' (which you can't derive without making quite a

few

> > unwarranted "special" assumptions).
> >
> > Piotr
> ************
> As was noticed by Meyer and Jokl, there are in Albanian language
> quantitave and qualitative Ablaut or Apophony. Cf. Alb. bie < *ber-

> (Lat. phero) and borë < be:ra: 'snow' (quantitative apophony),
> besides qualitative one: pjek < *pekW-, but aor. poqa 'I have
> baked', etc.

I forget to mention: *perd > Alb. pjerdh 'to fart', but *pe:rd- +a:

> pordhë 'fart' (cf. Gr. perdix 'partridge').
> Konushevci