Re: [tied] Question on Albanian sy

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
>> a). Albanian nye <-> Romanian nuie (nuia) 'stick, rod, twig'
>> (DEX considering Rom. nuia from Latin novella -> if true, we have
>> here an original sequence *uwje (after e>je))
>
> Albanian <nye> doesn't mean 'stick, rod, twig'. It means 'knot, gnarl,
> node' or something that resembles these things, especially 'ankle'. A
> hard lump, not a long, delicate and flexible thing. There's no chance
> that any of the meanings of <nye> could have developed from the
> semantics of Lat. novella 'shoot, sucker, young twig'. Actually, <nye>
> comes from a different word in Latin, (<no:dus>) and is only
> accidentally similar to Rom. nuie.
>
> Piotr

about this "y"; I see there are evrywhere an Alb. "y" for a Rom. "u" in
the same position as in "fluier/fyell".
I don't think there is a need for more example since everyone can see
them.
I was looking more for a sequence where initialy the cluster is "Cl" and
the reflex of this cluster should be in Albanian the sequence "Cy".
Let us take the word for "key". The word I mean is "kyç" and I think
here we have again an "ClV-" > "ky-" with the absorbtion of "l" in "y".
I mean, it appears the only explanation to me since there is nothing to
dissimilate here, thus I suppose there is indeed an "Cly-" > "ky-"

Alex