[tied] Re: ANUS

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Abdullah Konushevci
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 9:37 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: ANUS
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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).
>
> Where am I wrong? Standard Albanian /y/ is a monophthong, and it

mostly

> derives from old *u: (whatever the intermediate stages and

dialectal

> variants). Do you question that?
>
> Piotr

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No, I am not question that, but we may take in account a
intermediate stage *u: > ui > y, even in monosyllabic words.

Konushevci