Re: [tied] Proto-Albanian Timeframes

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 42428
Date: 2005-12-06

On 12/6/05, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

Hello Abdullah,
  Piotr wrote: "trisyllabic ones like <madhështi:>"

  Please tell us: Does <madhështi:> has currently a long i and is tri-
syllablic in today Albanian?

  Thansk a lot,
      marius
 
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Yes, it si trisyllabic, for /ë/, like in many other cases, has just euphonic function: it serves to separate and to easy pronounce cluster of three consonants. In concret case we have -dhsht-, where /ë/ was palced to avoid the difficulty of pronounciation. Ohterwise, -sht<*stH- is aded to adjective <i madh> 'big' (cf. <madhsht-or> 'splended' etc. In this case *g' > dh, but in case of *me:g'to > moujt- (attested in "Meshari") (*e: seems to be diphthonged like in *pe:d:- > pout- and *-gt- was treated as -jt-, cf. *lagzda > Alb. <lajthi/lejthi> 'hazelnut').
 
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