[tied] Re: done + Gothic?

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

>
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> >> Alex
> > ************
> >
> 1) the aspects of "to prepare", is known in Rum. as well but

there is

> the form "a gãti"
> which semanticaly seems to be some different from "a gãta"= to
> finish. apparently in
> Alb. both forms are merged together since "gatit" means to

prepare

> and to finish
> 2) why should be "ngatë" related to "gatit"? I don't see the

semantic

> evolution here.

[AK]
Dear Alex, to my view, <i/e ngatë> 'relative, akin' is a prefixed
form of <gat->.

> Could you give a try?
> 3) there is no way to get Rum. "g" from "gn"; the "gn" cluster

(even

> from an "g'n" )
> became "mn" and could eventually get reduced to "n" or "m" but

never

> "g".

[AK]
If we talk for concordances, I think that we have to deal with Pre-
Romanian, Dacian, that, to me, was just other dialect of Illyrian,
as Albanian.

> Alex

Konushevci