Alb. "vatër" ( it was (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian valle )

From: tgpedersen
Message: 35199
Date: 2004-11-25

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > The output of *h2ah1- (+ consonant) in pre-Alb. is of course *a:
> > (after the loss of the laryngeals), which is regularly rounded to
*o
> > > Common Albanian *wo, with a prothetic *w also found in loans
from
> > Latin, and with the regular unrounding of the vowel in some
dialects.
> > There's no "vae~voe" anywhere in this derivation.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> I am not so sure we have to deal with a prothetic "w" here. There
are
> several facts which will speak for a diphtongation of "o"
to "oa"(wa) and
> from that point the consonification of "w" at the begin of the
word.

Cf. Jysk 'Wolle' < Danish 'Ole', presumably o: > úo > uó > wo . I
think it's likely the 'prothetic' v- of eg. Russian vosem' "eight"
developed the same way: o > uó > wo > vo .

Torsten