From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 22801
Date: 2003-06-07
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From: Abdullah Konushevci
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: ANUS
> Otherwise, *o: > e is characteristic only for inherited words of PIE (cf.
hell < *skolos `spit', pela < *po:la `mare', nuse < *snuso:s `bride', pemë
< *poma `fruit and fruit tree' and it's not a Latin loan). Also, stressed
*u: > i/y (cf. *su:> thi 'pig', mu:s > mi, dyllë < *g^hu:(s)lo `wax').
Sorry, Abdullah, but you are wrong. The fronting of long back vowels,
whereby o: > ø: > e: and u: > y: (> i: in monosyllabic words) is definitely
younger than you suggest. Balkan Lat. *padu:le- > pyll and debitu:ra 'duty'
> detyrë show it, for example. *po:ma is a Vulgar Lat. form, originally the
plural of <po:mum>, used collectively (cf. OFr. pome > Fr. pomme).
Piotr