Re: Albanian (1)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 1. The development of PIE dorsal stops

> The word-initial contrast between <d> /d/ and <dh> /D/, especially

in

> word-initial positions, is taken by some to reflect *g^H (e.g.

dorë

> 'hand' < *g^He:sr-) *vs. *g^ (e.g. dhëmb 'tooth' < *g^ombH-).

However,

> there are counterexamples to such a "rule"; there is moreover the

same

> kind of capricious variation as regards reflexes of PIE *d(H)-,

and

> sometimes both variants can be found in the same root. Cimochowski
> attributed the modern contrast to randomly lexicalised Old

Albanian

> sandhi variation (e.g. *D after a vowel or *r, *d after a nasal);

no

> better solution has been offered so far. Intervocalic affricates

(stage

> C) seem to have been exempt from the loss of intervocalic voiced

stops

> (to be described later). In this position, and after /r/, we

always find

> fricative /D/ in Modern Albanian.

Do you mean that in these intervocoid positions, PIE g^(H)
yields /D/; elsewhere you have said that intervocalic *d disappears.

> Some examples:
>
> *k^onídah2 > *canída: > Geg thëni:, Tosk thër(r)ijë

Richard.