Re: [tied] Proto-Albanian

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> Since Alex evidently desires to know the whole story of the 'pea'
> word, here it is:
>
> The pre-Albanian word was probably *ma:dos, from the root *mad- found
> in various names of foodstuffs, e.g. Eng. meat (< *mati-, originally
> meaning 'food') and (beech) mast. This became Proto-Albanian *ma:d
> (after the loss of the nom.sg. ending), alternating with *ma:dz-. The
> affricate developed regularly before inflectional endings lost later
> than nom.sg. *-os, and was subsequently generalised throughout the
> paradigm, producing the new nom.sg. *ma:dz. The suffix *-ela: > *-ëlë
> > Alb. -ullë, Rom. -ãre (with rhotacism, as expected) was added
> rather late, otherwise intervocalic *-d- (or *-dz-) would have been
> lost
>
> To sum up, the common ancestor of Alb. modhullë and Rom mazãre is
> something like *ma:dz-ëlë

mmmmmm, just if you agree the suffix is "-ele". From an /e/ we can have
an /ë/ but I guess not from an /ë/ an /e/.
The romanian form is with /e/ at the end "mazãre".
How is to explain the different threatment of the suffix *-elV (V= e or
a?) in Albanian? See please here:
"modhullë, vjedhullë" but "mugull, sumbull/thumbull" ?

A very intersting question should be how is spelt the word "Danube,
Donau" in Albanian, maybe Abdullah will help us out here.