On Sat, 12 Apr 2003 19:34:16 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
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a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>But, what about Alb. sa 'how' and Latin quod, where we have the same
>modification of kwo- > sa.
The online Demiraj has it as:
Albanian form: se [conj, pron] {1} (tg)
Meaning: that, as, when
Proto-Albanian: ts'e(i), ts'i
Other Alb. forms: si [conj, pron] {2} (tg) `how (?)'; sa [conj, pron]
(tg) `how many, much (?), as (...) as' {3}
Page in Demiraj AE: 353
IE reconstruction: kwe-, kw(e)i-
Meaning of the IE root: how, what
Page in Pokorny: 644
Notes: {1} Interrog. and rel. pronoun, esp. in connection with a prep.
{2} Interrog. and rel. pronoun, esp. in connection with a prep. From
instr. kwi-h1. {3} From Alb. *si-a, a combination of two pronominal
members, viz. *kwih2 and *h2eu-/h2en-.
>Or, lets take Greek tra- in trapezium
>from zero grade *kwt(w)r (cf. Lat. ratio > arsye through metathesis
>r-a > a-r).
Greek -ra- is the regular development of syllabic */r./
(*kWt(w)r.-ped-ih2 > trapeza).
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