[tied] Re: ANUS

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 8:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ANUS
>
>
> > Albanian /y/= /iu/ as in "Tür" and this is not a properly

fronting to /i/

> of backvowel /u/, is it?
>
> In standard German, <Tür> contains /y/ (a rounded front vowel, and

a

> monophthong), _not_ /iu/ (a diphthong). Proto-Albanian stressed

*u: was

> fronted an became its front counterpart *y: (modern /y/),

preserving the

> lip-rounding (the same thing happened to German /u/ in umlauting
> environments). The unrounding of /y/ to /i/ took place word-

finally in

> monosyllabic words, as in *mu:s > *my: > mi .
>
> Piotr

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Sorry, Piotr, I think you are wrong, because Alb. /y/ is mostly
derived from diphtong /ui/ (cf. yll 'star', pl. yj and yje, from
very good attested uvill 'id.' in many Albanian dialects).

Konushevci