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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> Outcome of PIE /*s/ > Alb. /s/ we have attested in *snuso:s >
> nuse 'bride', in *super > sipër 'over' (cf. hip 'to climb up, to go
> up' from *up-er-) some of basic words of the Albanian inherited
> dictionary.
I'm not sure where <sipër> comes from, but since it fails to match
*super- on two counts I suspect that the similarity between the two is
accidental. <nuse> can't be derived via regular sound changes from
*snusah2 or *snusos (PIE "*snuso:s" doesn't exist), and it most likely
reflects pre-Alb. *(s)nu(p)tja: < *snubH-t-jah2, related not only to
Lat. nuptia 'wedding' but more importantly to Gk. numpHe: 'bride,
marriageable girl', which also tended to replace <nuos> (< *snusos).
The verb *sneubH- 'marry' may be ultimately related to *snusos via
hypothetical unextended *sneu-, buth that's a different story.
Piotr