From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 19416
Date: 2003-02-28
>No. Albanian ending -on is not unstressed.That's what I said: it's stressed.
>All verbs on Albanian areDidn't you say the participle was shtrejtë?
>stressed in last syllabe. The reason why ending is stressed we could
>also explane by the fact that we have in Geg. part. adjectives i(e)
>shtrënguem/ Tosk. i(e) shtrënguar (cmp. kron and (g.) krue, (t.)
>krua, fton and (g.) krue, (t.) and many others examples. This is why
>I doubt that Albanian verb shtrëngoj is a Latin loan. The stem of
>this verb is shtrëngon, until the root, maby compound one, shtrëng-
>(cmp. derivates shtrëng-+ -im, shtrëg- + -esë).