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

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

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

Yes, you have right. In anlaut, mb- is a result of *H1en- + b that
ended in Albanian as mb-, in Gheg as m-, getting later anaptytic
homorganic sound /b/ (cf. also Tosk pas 'after' and Gheg m(b)
as 'id.'. Also in auslaut *kWr.mi- 'worm' > Alb Gheh krym (i > y
bemolization caused by bilabial nasal /m/), Tosk krimb, where /b/ is
again anaptytic homorganic sound.
In case of b/m alternation in Thracian, Illyrian and Albanian I think
that we have to deal with dialectal characteristic, that has nothing
to do with anaptytic homorganic sound /b/.

Konushevci