Re: [tied] Re: alb. gji

On Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:55:33 -0000, "Abdullah Konushevci
<akonushevci@...>" <akonushevci@...> wrote:

>Yes, plain g gives g in mergere > mërgoj, but I doubt that in this
>case we have to deal with old Latin loans. They are probablye from
>neolatin or italian sources, when this rule ceased to affect common
>known palatalization of plain guturals before front vowels e and i.

On the contrary. The palatalization is late in Latin, and was never
given up in Romance or Neo-Latin (it's /mérdz^ere/ in Church Latin).
If we have /g/ in Albanian, it's a sign the loan is early (cf. Basque
bake < pacem) or that the unpalatalized 1sg. and 3pl. mergo, mergunt
were the source of analogical spread.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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