From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 38336
Date: 2005-06-04
On 6/4/05, pielewe <wrvermeer@...> wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
> wrote:
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> > 1. and I found it as a distinct particle in Albanian too: a-të, a-
> > si, a-so, a-saj, a-jo
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> The Albanian element _a-_ has been derived from:
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> (a) PIE *au (beginning with Pedersen).
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> or:
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> (b) A borrowed Latin _atque_ or Romance forms built with its help
> _atque_ (beginning with Meyer and Meyer-Lübke respectively).
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> [For details see Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien, p. 70.]
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> Note that the monophthongization of PIE *au in Albanian cannot easily
> be pre-Roman because it affects such well-established Latin borrowings
> as _pak_ < _paucus_ and several others.
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> W.
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