Re: Laryngeal hardening

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

>
> Alb. <qengj> m, pl. <qengja> `lamb' is supposed to be borrowed

from

> the methetic from of *acing(u)lus <Lat agniculus (Skok). Bugge

thinks

> that it is from Rom *agnunc(u)lus, Meyer fellows Bugge. Camaj saw

in

> it as prefixcal derivative of q- and further comparison with

<enjë>.

> Çabej connects it qengj< *ken-k- to Gk kainos `new') etc.
> Because the name of <lamb> appears in Gheg as <kingj> (cf. kepë,
> besides Tosk <qepë> from probably Latin caepa `onion'), I guess

that

> in the case of Alb. <king/qingj> we have to deal with laryngeal
> hardening (*H2 > /k/), deriving it from *H2egWh-nu- that yields

PAlb

> *kenj-u > kingj/qingj with analogy leveling of cluster *gWh-n to

<nj>,

> like in *g'ne:-sko > njoh `to know', *egni-/*ogni- `fire' > Alb.
> <enj>, probably from *ogni-, attested in <e enjte> `Thursday' and
> with /i/ vocalism due to i-Umlaut: Gk amnos: Lat. agnus: OCS

jagne: OE

> e:anian `yean'. (Pokorny agwh-no-s 9.)
>
> Konushevci

This hardening of laryngeal seems to appear as well in *ost-, from
oldest form *H2ost-, H2est-, later colored to *H2ast- derived Hitt.
<hastai> 'bone', Gk <osteon> 'id.', Lat. <os> 'id', Alb.
<asht> 'id.' etymologically connected to OCS <kost&> 'id.', Lat.
<costa> 'rib'.
Alb. <gocë> 'oyster' with variants <guacë> can't be excluded from
*H2ost-eH2 or *H2e:st-eH2.
I think that as well *H3ezd-/*H3ozd- 'bud, twig' is also related to
*gWezd-/*gWozd- 'branch, twig'.