Re: Albanian (1)

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 30072
Date: 2004-01-26

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

> Trough "substratum" I understand the most old layer of the
language, the one
> whose rests has been seen as a bounch of words considerated as sure
> substratuale due their relatives in Albanian

See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/15124 . I would
regard the Etruscan substrate (= any set of remains) in French as
older than the Gaulish substrate (= remains of displaced language).

> In the form ArgeS appears problematicaly the "S". So far we
know, "S" in
> Rom. is just from an "s/+" or dialectal, from an "c/+"

Do you have examples of the fate of Latin -si- before vowels?

Of kW > c^> s:
> > Piotr has already given you some examples (
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/29877 )

> I fail to see the Romanian reflexes in the message mentioned . You
see them?

That's primarily a discussion of Albanian. Are you after an example
of a palatalised labiovelar? Miguel has already give an example of
labialised palatals.

Richard.