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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> So, to my view, Alb. verb fëlliq < ful- + -iq could be easy
connected to O.E. adjective <ful> `dirty, vile, corrupt'. Intervocalic
/l/ was regularly changed in /ll/ and, because of shifted accent in
last syllable, we have normally /u/ > /ë/. The verb <fëlliq> could has
adjective origin, compensated later with common suffix �të > i
fëlliqtë `dirty' and extended also in <fëlligë> `shameful deed, act'.
The only imaginable connection would be as a loan from some Germanic
language (the /f/, produced by Grimm's Law, is _exclusively_
Germanic). The word occurs throughout the branch (from Goth. fu:ls to
Mod.Ger. faul), but I'm not convinced that early Germanic *fu:l- could
have given Alb. fëlliqur etc. through a stress shift (caused by late
suffixation). In the history of Albanian, long *u: and short *u are
two quite different species of fish, and one would expect the survival
of regular *<fyll-> as well.
Piotr