From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21492
Date: 2003-05-03
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 10:23 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Proto-Albanian
> 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" ?
*-el- could have different gender variants (m. *-elos, n. *-elom, f. *-elah2), producing Alb. -ull/-ullë. Why Romanian has consistently <-ure> (or <-ãre>) rather than <-urã>, I can only speculate. Most likely the Proto-Romanians treated words in <-ull(ë)> as consonantal stems (as if they were Lat. words with an acc.sg. in *-ulem). Cf. Balkan Latin *padu:lem (from metathesised <palu:dem>), which became Alb. *pëyll > pyll but Romanian *padule > padure.
Piotr