Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <a_konushevci@...> 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^-
>
> Hey, am I missing a point? How can Alb. e/a be from /o:/? And how

is

> the semantics to be understood: "straight" > "circle", as a
> prep. "around", strikes me as distinctly wrong. It really takes
> a "lengthened o-grade" to drive this one home.
>
> Jens

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As far as I know, PIE long /*o:/ yields in Albanian /e/. And, without
missing a point, I think that its plural (rrathë) could be from weak
o-grade *rog^-a:- (*o > a).

Konushevci