[tied] Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

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

> > ************
> > I am afraid that PIE *i in Albanian yields /z/: *yes- > zienj 'to
> > boil' (cf. Greek zeein and zein 'to boil', eczema, Old English

gist >

> > yeast); *yeug^-ma: (cf. Lat. iugum 'yok', Greek zeugma 'bond'),

*yo:-

> > ba:, bilabial extended root > zgjebë 'scabies, desire to lie down'
> > (cf. Slavic iebati 'to fuck', Lat. iace:re 'to lie down');

Illyrian

> > Iadera > today Zadar/Alb. Zarë.
> > So, I believe that we have *wik^m.ti > zati >zet '20' from a zero-
> > grade form *(w)i:k^m.ti.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
> what did happened with "k^m" here? Lost in space, dissapiered

without

> trace?
>
> Alex

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Yes, for you, they disappear?! Do you know why? Because stops
regularly fall and syllabic PIE *m. yields in Alb. /a/.

Konushevci