Re: [tied] Re: ANUS

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> 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

Albanian /y/= /iu/ as in "Tür" and this is not a properly fronting to
/i/ of backvowel /u/, is it?