Re: [tied] Re: some terms for George

16-06-03 23:25, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> Alex said that Devil was "dreq" in Albanian. I checked, of course, and
> indeed at http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Albanian/default.htm
> the word is given as dreq, dreqi "diablo".
>
> Now you're telling me it's a plural. I'm confused. Isn't "the devil"
> singular? Shouldn't the plural definite form be *dreqtë?

<dreq> is one of the umlauted singularised plurals in Albanian, like
<gjel> 'cock', <enë> 'vessel', etc. It's singular but presupposes
earlier *drak, pl. *dreq < *drak-i (is it actually attested, Abdullah?).
Isn't this *-i identical with analogically generalised Latin -i:
(possibly confused with inherited collectives in *-ijo-/*-ijah2)?

Piotr