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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > 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.

>
> They can hardly be cognate if they have different laryngeals, since

*h1

> and *h2 were not allomorphically related in PIE. We must, however,
> distinguish two (unrelated) adpreps: *h1epi ~ *h1opi 'upon, near,
> beside'; and *h2ápo ~ *h2pó- 'away from, after, behind' (hence
> *h2ap-ero-, *h2apo-tero- 'later, further'). The latter could, in
> principle, belong somewhere in Torsten's waterworld.
>

So could the former, if we reconstruct it *api ~ *upi instead (cf.
the Ehret quote again), supposing they were AfroAsiatic loans
(actually I think they are ultimately loans there too, given the
Proto-AA has a root *(a)m- "water", not **-p-, and given the out-of-
place Sanskrit 'ambu' "water". Pre-nasalisation?


Torsten