Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (3)

From: alex
Message: 30293
Date: 2004-01-29

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> Dear Abdullah,
>
> Your examples are correct, but Alex is right about the nasal vowel in
> *poro~c^iti. Even if Albanian took it from a Slavic dialect that had
> preserved nasality, the denasalisation of a vowel before early
> Albanian *c^ is consistent with the native pattern as represented by
> *pe~c^& > pes�. Incidentally, thanks for providing an unambiguous
> example of a Slavic loan predating Tosk rhotacism!
>
> Piotr

That become more and more interesant. It appears that a big part of these
changes in Albanian should be placed in time after VII-X century..doesn't
it?

Alex