Re: [tied] Re: Dog

26-01-04 15:10, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> Assimilation in distance was characteristic also for Illyrian and
> Albanian too. I know that you don't except my derivation of Alb.
> <sos> 'burn out' and <përsos> 'to complete, to finish, to ripen
> completly' form assimilated form *kWe:kW-, but Alb. <thith> 'to
> suck', derived possible from zero-grade form *su:k^-, assimilated in
> *k^u:k^- proves that assimilation in distance is also present in
> Albanian, as is in Illyrian, Celtic and Latin languages. I find no
> difficulty to see exactly assimilated form *kWerkW-u of *perkW-u as
> proto-form of Illyrian Kerkyra/Korkyra and Alb. qerr/qarr 'oak'.

I've refuted this phantasmagoria before and won't repeat myself. Even if
pre-Albanian *kWerkWu- had been a real form, it would have given *sjark,
not <qarr/qerr>, in Modern Albanian.

Piotr