Re: [tied] h1,h2,h3 in Albanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci

<akonushevci@...>

> wrote:
> >
> > If you agree that *H1ep- with o-grade *H1op- yields in Alb. <hap>

and

> > related words <prapë> 'again', <prapa> 'back': ON after: Hett.

appa:

> Gr.
> > opithen ("Vare Arveord Etymologis Ordbok" by Harald Bjovrand &

Fredrik

> > Kortland, Oslo 200, pp. 20) and *H1ed- 'to eat', which thematic

form

> > *H1edom- yields Alb. <ha> 'I eat': OHG ezzen: Lat. edere: Sl.
> jesti 'id',
> > then *H1ag'- 'to drive, lead' and its o-grade form seems to

continues

> > regular outcome *H1o > Alb. /ha/ (*H1(ed)óm, *H1op-o > Alb.

<hap>, as

> well
> > as *H1og'mo-lo > hulli 'furrow').
> >
>
> If I understood what you said earlier correctly, then you want to
> connect direction adverbs, eg Hittite appa: with the *Hap- "water"
> word, which is why you reconstruct it with as *h1ep-/*h1op-? But if

the

> word was a loan from a (perhaps no longer existing) AfroAsiatic
> language, the perhaps the *(H)a- part was a prefix which also

might

> explain volatile laryngeal and perhaps the vowel alternation (if

from

> a/u); se the Ehret quote in
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/4168
>
>
> Torsten

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Yes and in this case I back up your view that *H1ep- (athematic) with
it o-grade form *H1op-, as well as *H1opo- (thematic) and *H2ep-,
colored to *H2ap- 'river' are related.
For further connection I have no idea and I don't like to be involved.

Konushevci