Re: Illyrian prefix an-

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

>
> Andetrion, Dalmatia (Strabo).
> Anausaro, road station (TP Miller IR col. 571-573. Rav. IV 15).
> Andarva/Anderba, road station Miller IR col. 462-471. IA Cuntz 338,

7.

> Rav. IV 16).
> Andizetes, Panonian tribe (Strab. VII 314. Ptol. II 15,2)
> Andautonion (Ptol. II, 14,4), city in Panonia.
> Bulentum/Bolentum, if identical with Bulet close to Dubrovnik and if
> from Alb appellative bulim `spring' (Jokl, Skok), I think that
> testifies for its high frequency in many place names with it

prefixed

> form: Ombula/Jambula, Ubla/Obla, Bul-ofçe/Bolec in Dardania etc.

Forms

> Ombula/Jambula are from prefixed form *H1en + bul- with

characteristic

> assimilation –nb- > -mb-, later reduced on –b-/-m-.
> From last example we could suppose that place names Andetrion,
> Anausaro, Andizetes, Andarva, Andautonion are indeed prefixed forms

of

> –detrion, -ausaro, -dizetes, -darva, because H1en is treated in

PAlb.

> as –ân in Gheg dialect and –ën in Tosk one.
> So except aus- and ar- as a first element on many Illyrian place
> names, exists also as prefix an- attested in many other place names.
>
> Any comment?
>
> Konushevci
>

A prefix An seems very possible in all this forms

But h1en- gave en- in PAlb later –ân in Gheg dialect and –ën in Tosk
I agree

So how you explain An- not En- in these toponims?

Marius