Re: PIE /gn/ > Alb/?/

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 25945
Date: 2003-09-22

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> What did happen to the PIE "gn" cluster in Albanian ? Did it became
> reduced to "n" or did it suffered other transformations? I ask it
> because it seems that the Latin group "gn" became simply "n" in
> Albanian.
>
> Alex
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I think that you are wrong. As far as I know, PIE cluster /gn/, /g^n/
in Albanian yields /nj/. *g^ne:sco > njoh 'to know' (cf. regarding
the evolution *g^ > in Satm languages: Zend-Avesta or Slavic znati),
but prefixed form *n-g^no-tos- > i ngatë 'known' (cf. Lat. gnotus,
Sl. poznanik 'id.'). See also archive about *ogni, according to C.
Babaev or with initial syllabic nasal, according to P. Gasiorowski.

Konushevci