PIE *y > Alb. /z/ (was Re: Romanian Verb )

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> I also think that:
> jo-në < PIE *(a) ja: nos
> y-në < PIE *(a) (e)i nos
> and so-në < PIE *k'ja:i nos (see sonte < *k'ja:j + nokWtai )
>
> so jo-në is not from *sa:- but from an original *y -> *a ya: nos

You seem to be disregarding the caseforms with t-. The distribution of
j-/zero- and t-/s- are exactly as with the IE pronoun *so, *tó-.
Therefore this is the pronoun seen in Sanskrit sa, tam, sa:, ta:m,
etc., not the one seen in ayam, imam, iyam, ima:m. Pedersen sorted out
the details in 1900.

Jens