Re: [tied] *h1ngni-, Fire

This is interesting, and plausible, given that the Albanian names of the days of the week are either loans or loan-translations from Latin. It should be noted, however, that the reconstruction *Hn.gnis is also compatible with Alb. egn-, since PIE syllabic *n gives Albanian /a/ or /e/, the latter in umlauting contexts.

Piotr

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I think that Albanian Enj < *Ign (com. *gno-sco, Albanian njoh, Lat. dignus, Alb. i denj, Lat. signum, Alb. shenj)with evoluation of /-i-/ > /-e-/ befor a cluster fo consonants (comp. also Alb. shigjeta < Lat. sagitta, Alb. letër < Lat. littera, Alb. mesha < Lat. missa) and through transformation of the gn > nj, could throw more light in this issue. This word is preserved in the name of day E enjte "Thursday", suffixed form Enj+-te and is calc lingvistique of Latin Dies Jovis (It. Giovedi, Ger. Donnerstag). So, I think that this is the cognat of Indic Agni "the God of Fire", Sllavic. Oganj, Lat. ignis, etc.