[tied] Re: Catunari

Why should we accept anything so patently false? Where did you take
this

> idea from? In deverbal nouns (your first two examples) we have the
> Slavic instrumental suffix *-dlo- (< PIE *-dHlom), still preserved

as

> <-dlo> in West Slavic. Slavic also has *-lU (neuter *-lo), an

originally

> adjectival suffix. It occurs in past participles like *bylU (now
> functioning as preterites in the modern Slavic languages after the

loss

> of the copula), but it is not itself a truncated verb!!
>
> > I don't know why we must
> > deny that Alb. suffix - ishte is not from the same verb <ishte>

was!

>
> Because its history is easily traceable to Slavic *-is^c^e < *-

i:sk-jo-.

> Slavic has both *-is^c^e and the historically underlying suffix *-

isko.

> The South Slavic reflex of *-is^c^e is <-is^te>, and that's the

source

> of both Albanian <-ishte> and Romanian <-i$te>; the meaning of

both is

> the same as in Slavic; it would be just silly to deny the

connection.

>
> Piotr

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As far as I remember, its Skok's idea and, until tomorrow, you must
wait, because I will cite exactly his masterpiece "Etimologijski
rjecnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika", JAZU, Zagreb, 1971(?).

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