Re: [tied] Re: Question on Albanian sy

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> But I don't see well how you can derived nye from Latin no:dus
> 1. I cannot see why d should failed here?
> 2. but ok, let's say d>zero. In this case d>zero took place.For
> sure after o: > e finished completely before d>zero
> 3. Finally *neu > ne (due to eu>e)
>
> So Piotr, no:dus would give *ne in Albanian not nye...

Lat. no:du- lost its /d/ regularly (all intervocalic voiced stops were
lost in early Albanian) and the two syllables were contracted into *no:

> *nö or *no (both outcomes are possible in Albanian, depending on the

date of the borrowing); the dialectal variant <nue> suggests an original
*no. Like many other short roots of this shape (including <sy>!) the
word was extended with -n- and became a nasal stem. This *non yields Geg
nue ~ nye (the loss of the final nasal is also regular, but see the
definite form nên-i).

Piotr