[tied] Re: albanian prefix "stër-"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:31:54 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>
> >--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> ><a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> >> Compare *dHegWHo: 'burn' > djeg (no *-eje- suffix, no
> >> palatalisation).
> >> ************
> >> In Albanian exists also verb sos 'to burn up',
> >from probabley lengthened e-grade.
> >> of PIE *kwekw, an assimilated form of PIE *pekw- 'to cook, to
> >> ripen' - Alb. pjek.
>
> It doesn't seem very likely that *pekW- gave *both* pjek and sos in
> Albaniam... I don't know the etymology of <sos> but I would

prefer to

> look for an answer having to do with the root *k^eu- "burn" (*k^w-
>
> s-).
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

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Your suggestion to look for another root should be worthy, if Alb.
verb was not a homonymic one. Besides the meaning 'to burn up' it
preserved also the meaning 'to finish, to complete' or another
original meaning 'to ripen'. Lets see its derivations: përsos 'to
perfect, to polish', përsosje 'perfection', i përsosur 'perfect',
etc.

Konushevci