Re: [tied] Proto-Albanian Timeframes

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>
> 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
>
>
> ************
> 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').
>
> Konushevci

Thanks a lot, Abdullah.
Piotr, you need to add an argument to the following question:
'Why -(ë)shti in madhështi: couldn't be added later?"

I ask this because -(ë)shti seems to be an 'active' suffix in
Albanian...

Best Regards,
Marius