Re: Albanian, pronouns,plural

From: elmeras2000
Message: 26253
Date: 2003-10-05

That's one of the places Albanian shows its IE origin at the
clearest: it's the demonstrative pronoun *so, *saH2, *tód, acc.
*tóm, *táH2m, *tód, etc.: Just like Germanic, Greek, Indo-Iranian
and Tocharian, Albanian faithfully reflects the IE paradigm in which
only the nom.sg. masc. and fem. begin with *s- while all other forms
have an initial *t-. In Albanian, the reflex of /s/ is lost in the
weakly stressed words, but not always quite: The reflex of *s- is
expected to be gj-, and in some of the forms we find /j-/ instead
which looks like a reduced form of it, as nom.sg.fem. jonë 'unsere',
presumably from *saH2 + *nos. The t-forms have mainly kept the /t/
down to the present day, but some of the forms have combined the /t/
with a /y/ emerging later in the word (mostly out of *-sy-) and thus
show up with /s-/.

Jens


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> I am quiet intrigued by the plural form of the Albanian personal
pronoun
> of the 3 pers.
>
> For sg, we have:
> msc.sg : aj
> fem.sg : ajo
>
> For pl. we have:
> msc.pl :ata
> fem.pl :ato
>
> The question is , wherefrom is this "t" in the plural form?
>
> alex