Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

> >
> > [AK]
> > I think that Alb. <rreth> (pl. rrathë) 'circle, region' is from

an

> > lengthened o-grade form *ro:g^-, besides others derivates: <i
> > drejtë> 'right' from d-reg^-to-, <mbroth> 'to prosper, to

flourish'

> > from an lengthened e-grade *mb-re:g^- and <rrjedh> from basic

root

> > *reg^-
>
> Where does this 'nasal prefix(?)' (mb-re:g^ etc) in Albanian come
> from (if that's what it is)?
>
> Torsten

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From PIE *ambhi- 'from both sides'.

Konushevci