Re: Illyrian-Albanian prefix d-

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

>
> Arnaud to Abdullah :
> I suggest you have one more look at :
> akru versus d- akru "tear"
> Obviously, PIE had a #d- prefix,
> but standard PIE theory does not allow prefixes.
>
> Arnaud

Except akru versus d-akru 'tear' we have also Mycean dektu-. Greek
diktoum 'net' from *H1ekt-: Hitt. e:kt-, Skt aksu- and maybe Alb otra
'strong and heavy twine', otresh 'iron peg or ring' < *eH1kt-ra. (In a
cluster of two stops the first is lost: *nokWt- > Alb. natë 'night'.)

Konushevci