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

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 23562
Date: 2003-06-19

It's from preverb pri-,
> verbal root *-je~-, participial suffix -tU, adjectival suffix
> -nU -> pri-je~-tU-nU > prijat&n, prijatn- (e.g. Polish has
> przyjemny in the same function, from *pri-jemU-nU)
>

I've been thinking the Common Slavic form was *prijeNtInU (Russ.
<prijáten>).

Sergei