Re: [tied] Re: rothacism in Albanian

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
>> ah! what a surprise, maybe the "mirë" has too an inherited "r" there.
>
> What's <mirë> got to to do with it? But yes, as far as I know, it has
> an inherited /r/; so does any word which has /r/ in Geg as well as in
> Tosk. You can't know the difference if you limit your attention to
> Tosk-based standard Albanian.
>

I don't know if mirë has an inherited "r". I just know that the Albanian
shows as Romanian the same /e/ > /i/ before /n/ and that the another
version for "mirë" is "mbirë". On this bassis one can say :
mbene > mbine > mbirë > mirë

It can be wrong, I agree, since this chain of transformations is made
without any deep study on Albanian "mirë". Latin "bene" from "dvonos"
( from an older "dvenos") should be seen here as the only source ( ? )
wherefrom this word can derive. BTW, any one has the comentar of
Leuman-Stolz regarding the relation dvenos > dvonos > bene ?

Alex