Re: [tied] Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between Greek

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 24476
Date: 2003-07-13

13-07-03 11:32, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:


> Historically speaking, the difference between Slavic loans and
> Turkish ones could be, in some regions, like Dardania, just 100-200
> years, and in some others, like in South Albania, 400-500 or, if you
> wish, at most 700 (The Balkans falls und Ottoman Empery in XIV
> century).

That's surely enough time to make all the difference. Different periods,
different source languages. You haven't proved you point which was:

_Slavic_ *lt (in a word borrowed about the beginning of the 7th c.)
would have become Albanian <ll>.

I see no reason to accept such a proposition.

Anyway, I believe that the previous discussion of the "chisel" word on
Cybalish was exhaustive. I don't want to repeat myself, and anyone who's
interested in the problem can check the archive.

Piotr