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

18-06-03 08:44, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 06:15:48 +0200, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
>
> >Now you have to take a look. There is in Alb no variety for feminine
> >/masculine for this "një". So far I know ( posible I am wrong), the
> >"një" has the same form for masculine and femine
>
> If you had paid attention, you'd *know* you're wrong. Piotr quoted Hamp
> quoting Dushmani njâni (m.) and njâna (f.).

... and I only gave one such inflected pair as an example. There's a
whole collection of them in Hamp's article, from both Geg and Tosk
dialects. Common Albanian *njân- is the only thinkable starting point.
Of course the less one knows, the more one speculates.

Piotr