Re: Latin *accu ? - > or how to obtain the misising A

From: pielewe
Message: 38340
Date: 2005-06-04

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:


> I have copy and past the content of the message:
>
> Albanian nom. ju may reflect IE *yus in the same manner as jo-
> reflects
> *sa:. The reflex of initial *s- and *y- before vowels is <gj->, and
> the
> lenited version of that is j-. A long *-u:- should of course yield -
> i- in
> a monosyllable, but what are we to expect in a reduced word? I
> therefore
> strongly believe that ju is *yu:s. The oblique u can be the
enclitic
> *wos.
>



I don't understand the relevance of this. My little posting was just
about the way the element _a_ (of _ai_ and _ajo_) has been
interpreted in the literature. This is about something completely
different.


I'm sorry


Willem