Re: [tied] Re: *g'(h)- > d as aberrant outcome

On Sun, 09 May 2004 10:55:16 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>If Latin <glandula> is diminutive of <glans, -dis> `acorn' (cf. also
>glandifer), Alb. form Tosk <gjëndër>, Geg <gâner>, attested
>Arvanitika <glëndërë>, Romanian <ghindura>, we must suppose for
>Albanian an alternated form <glandre>, attested in Old French,
>because suffix –ura is very familiar and common in Albanian and I see
>any reason to be reduced in –ër.

Assuming that too is the Latin suffix -úra, which is always
stressed, glándula, even in its rhotacized form gjándura,
could never be mistaken for containing the suffix -úra.

Old French is irrelevant (glándula > *glándle, with regular
loss of posttonic medial vowel, dissimilated to glandre ~
glande [and merged with glandem > glande]).


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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