[tied] Re: some terms for George

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:03:36 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>
> >Attested forms, according to Çabej's, are: dreck (1497, A.V.
> >Harffi), i dreqit (Buzuku), Dregji (Bardhi). It is singularized
> >plural.
> >Yes, it is possibly confused with inherited collectives in *-

ijo/*-

> >ijah2.
> >Yes, they find identical this *-i, from Miklosich to Skok, with
> >analogically generalised Latin -i.
>
> I take it that the o-stem nom.pl. ending *-oi has no native reflex

in

> Albanian?
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

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No, according to H. Pedersen, if I remember this well, but I know
that such thinking was also supported by Besim Bokshi, this *-i is
some kind of relic of the o-stem nom.pl.ending *-oi, even an *oi
diphthong derives in Albanian an /e/, but it may be that in open
syllable and in the end of the words, to derive an /i/.
This *-i is supposed to cause palatalization in the names ending in -
k, -g: plak 'old man', nom. pl.(through Umlaut) pleq < *pleki <
*plekoi; zog 'bird', nom. pl. zogj < *zogi < *zogoi.

Konushevci