Re: Saxon wanum "bright"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > In EtruscoCypriot, *wenakta would simplify to *wenata, and
> > regularly became Etruscan /vantH/, the protectoress of
> > the dead with hammer and wings (both symbolic derivations of
> > the original double-axe icon).
> >
> >
> > = gLeN
> ************
> One of prehistoric Albanian sound-law was exactly the reduction of
> the cluster -kt- > -t-: *nokW-t- > natë 'night', *sekti >

shat 'hoe'

> (Pokorny, *sek-), PN Arktos > Artë, until in historic time

clusters -

> kt- and -pt- have developed in -jt- and -ft-: Lat. directus > Alb.
> drejt, Lat. aptus > Alb. i aftë.
>
> Konushevci

Reduction of the cluster /-kt-/ to /-t-/ occur in hundreds of
languages and it is quite natural. So there's not a direct connection.

Regards

Marco