Re: [tied] Re: Albanian names (2) -> Besa, Besiana ("Google 1720" t

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 26887
Date: 2003-11-04

04-11-03 19:22, alex wrote:

> Thus Albanian "besë" appears to derive from *pak^-
> The satem aspect is hard to show here since the last wovel could have
> been an "e" which will point out to an ordinary palatalisation.

No, it doesn't appear to derive from *pak^-. There's no "ordinary
palatalisaton" of *k^ in Albanian. *k^ + front vowel (why *e??) would
still have given <th>.

Piotr