Re: [tied] Re: PIE *kwokt

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 19891
Date: 2003-03-16

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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 1:18 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: PIE *kwokt


> If we agree that Albanian PIE *k gives an s in certain enironment,
like: *wiks (cf. Latin vicus, Greek oikos) ALb. vis < *woiks ...

What environment, exactly, have you got in mind? I assume that by "PIE *k" you mean *k^, the phoneme reconstructed in the *weik^- root (incidentally, vis < *woik^s can't be right, since *oi > Alb. /e/, not /i/). <vis> may reflect something like *wik^jo-, if *-k^j- > Alb. -s- can be defended.

Piotr