[tied] Eric Hamp [Re: Dacian]

It's a clear tendency in Albanian, especially at this stage of
development, to aspirates wovels in the beginning: hark "bow" < lat.
arcus. This tendency is preserved also in some dialects until now:
heci (eci), hiki (iki), etc. So, with or withuat h- it's accepted
hyj "God".
Abdullah

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <petegray@...> wrote:
> >I doubt that Albanian hyj "God" is form Greek
> >ho huios "son"
>
> Surely the Greek huios would have been pronounced /ios/ before the
Albanians
> met it? Especially if they met it in a Christian context. So the
> connection does seem unlikely.
>
> Peter