[tied] Re: Short and long vowels

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 39340
Date: 2005-07-20

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
language@...>
> wrote:
>

> The root *terH1- 'bore, drill' is seen in the instrument noun tére-
tro-n
> 'drill, auger' and the verb teíro: 'I drill' (térH1-yo:) which
forms PPP
> tre:tós 'durchgebohrt' from *tr.H1-tó-s. This means that a zero-
grade
> sequence /rH1/ has here yielded Greek /re:/ between consonants.

I guess that Alb. <tjerr> 'spun yarn', <tjerr> 'to spin [yarn,
thread] should be derived from basic form *térH1-no with
stressed /é/ that yields Alb. /ie>je/ and *-rn- > Alb. /rr/., but
suffixed zero-grade form *tr.H1-lë 'drill, auger' yields Alb.
<turjelë> (cf. *gWerH1-, zero-grade form *gWr.H1-u > guri).
Based in these examples, we may deduce that PIE *-r.H1- yields in
Albanin -ur-.
In this case I like to add also the etymology of Alb. <i
trentë> 'mad, crazy', synonymic with <i fshimë/i fshirë> 'wiped,
rubbed', that, to me seems derived from variant *tro:-*nto, the
reason that forced me to see in Alb. adjective <i dhânë/i dhënë>
preservation of laryngeal *H3: *dH3-nto > PAlb. dzontë > dhânë/dhënë.

> Jens

Konushevci