From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 19048
Date: 2003-02-22
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> From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 7:52 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE *aussiio-
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> > No, it coudn't be, cause "�sht�" is standard form,
> > derived form oldes one anst, documented in 1555,
> so it
> > is very similar to sansk. ansti and pers. asti.
>
> Skt. "ansti"?? The Skt. word was <asti> (< *h1esti).
>
> The fact that something appears in Albanian in 1555
> does not mean that it can't be a Latin loan, since
> Balkan Latin loans entered (pre-)Albanian many
> centuries earlier. But Tosk �sht� (Geg �sht) is
> inherited anyway, along with the rest of the
> paradigm (<jam, je, �sht�, ...>).
>
> Piotr
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