Re: [tied] Re: Albanian

I think IE cosmogony includes a kind of subterranean sea. In India and
Ireland , the Giants (Fomori,Rakshasa) are said to come from underwater.
In Ireland, the Fomori's mother is Domnu (< *Dubn-), what may come from
*dheub- "deep" or *dheubh- "dark".

Joao SL

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> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> We know, for example, that in stressed syllables PIE *ou Albanian a,
> and PIE *eu Albanian e (e.g. in the "sea" word *dHeubeto- > *debët- >
> *deët > de:t), and this regularity recurs in word after word.
>
> - Comparing to similar deviations in other languages - if it possible
> to do so - how long back in time could the change in meaning from
> "deep" into "sea" have occurred ?
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> Piotr:
> <guvë> cannot derive from the same source or even from the reduced
> ("zero-grade") form of the root *k^euH- (i.e. *k^uH-), since there's
> no way to get Albanian <g-> from *k^-.
>
> - The reason I brought in question <guv-> (cave) was the superficial
> likeness to <cave>.
> Then I guess even Albanian "grop-" (hole; hollow; cave) has not
> derived from <*k^owilo- > because the root is already taken from
> "thellë".
> What wonders me more is how identic in meaning this word is to Swedish
> "grop" (dimple; pit; hollow; cavity; hole) !
>
> Alvin
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