Re: Alabanian "ngujon"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> I should like to know if there is any work about Latin loans into
> Albanian since it should better to read by myself instead of

asking :is

> this so?, is that so?, etc.
>
> For instance in this case, there is the Albanian verb "ngujon". I

have

> no ideea about this one if this is a latin loan or not. If this is

a

> Latin loan, then the Latin verb wherefrom the Albanian "ngujon"

derive,

> should be the verb "incuncare" ( my opinonin).
> If yes, then how is to explain the /nc/ > /j/ ?
>
> Alex

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The verb <ngujon> 'to close, to shut, to fasten' is a prefixed form
of n- + kunj + - oj, where n- is prefix, like in ngul 'to settle, to
stick', ngulim 'settlement', besides shkulem 'to be displaced',
shpërngul 'to be removed', all from PIE root *kel-2, indeed, of its
zero-grade form *kl.- 2. Second element is kunj 'peg', until -oj or
much earlear -onj is regular Albanian verb ending.

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