From: alex
Message: 23388
Date: 2003-06-16
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: some terms for George
To make much more clear: from a variant *o-nio of PIE *oi-no
Konushevci
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:
> Një < njâ 'one' is number and about its etymology are very wide
and
> different opinions. It is compared with Latin <unus>, Gothic
<ains>,
> OPrus <ains>, even with Skt <anya-> 'other', Gk <enioi> 'some'
> (Meyer). According to Baric from *n.-sem and to Huld a back-
> formation from fem. *smieH.
> My opinion is that number një 'one' could be easy derived from a
> variant of PIE *o-nio- through regular change of ni > nj.
>
> Konushevci
Thank you. Some questions more:
- which is the origin of definite article "i" . How can it be traced
back?
- which should be the feminine form of PIE *oi-no or of the variant
*o-nio ?
Alex