Re: Albanian "th"

Perhaps, You have right, because in Albanian exists also compound
thithëlopë 'toad', natterjack, goatsucker'?!

Konushevci
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > ************
> > Besides well-known example <thanj> 'I dry' < *sausnyo, there are
also
> > thi 'pig' < *su: (cf. Lat. sus, Gr. hus 'id.') with regular
loosing
> > of nominative ending in Albanian, which could be another example
of
> > dissimilation. But, in thith 'to suck' (cf. also Slavic sisati 'to
> > suck') < *su:k, variant of *seuH2- we have the process of
> > assimilation s - s < s - k, like we have in sos < *pekW-'to burn,
to
> > ripen', assimilated, like in Italic and Celtic languages, in
kWekW-.
> > So, I am afraid that rather for the process of dissimilation, we
have
> > to deal with the process of assimilation.
> >
> > Konushevci
> >
>
>
> actually I guess "thith" has nothing to do with *seuH2 but this
word is
> in the same family with Alb. "thithë", German "Zitze",
English "titt",
> Romanian "TâTã"., Armenian "tit", Greek "titthe:".
>
> alex