Re: [tied] "One" in Albanian [Was: some terms for George]

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> All, right, here's the gist of the matter. Hamp finds Huld's
> etymology (from *smiah2) implausible, and in general rejects the
> reconstruction of Common Albanian *një/*nji, which, as he argues, is
> based on incomplete evidence (uninflected, originally unstressed
> forms). He himself takes into consideration a great amount of
> dialectal material (including inflected forms, such as Dushmani njâni
> (m.) and njâna (f.), and concludes that the type <një> represents a
> development of unstressed *njâ < *njân < *nje:n < *(V)ni-ain- < *eni
> + *oino-, analogous to Slavic *ed-inU (i.e. deictic + numeral).
> According to Hamp, a parallel formation can be seen in Geg tân, Tosk
> tërë < *tod + *oino-. The type <nji> is either a by-form of <një>
> with vowel colouring due to the initial palatal, or (perhaps) a
> reflex of deictic *eni- without the accompanying *oino-.
>
> Piotr

So Mr Hamp assume reducion of two elements *eni + *oino to "një".
Piotr, do I make a mistake or there are several IE languages which show
change of /oi/ from *oino to /u/?
The second question here should be, was the second /o/ in *oino a
unstressed one or stressed one?

Alex