Re: b/m alternation in Thacian, Illyria and Abanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
> >
> > b/m alternation in anlaut, inlaut and auslaut and not p:m, as some
> > of our linguist declares and thinks, not knowing for -pn- > -m-
> > change in many inherited words, is evident in a number of words

Now I know next to nothing on the subject, but, surfing the archives,
it seems to me Albanian has a lot of initial mb-, nd- and ng- 's,
mostly explained as prefix *h1en + b-, d- and g-. Or were they
original instead?


Torsten