From: alex
Message: 24135
Date: 2003-07-04
> ************Rom. and Bulg. have both the older forms with "t", and both no nasal
> It si quite interesting that this PIE root *kWon- is, to my view,
> preserved in Albanian language in word <kudër> 'bitch' < *kunter
> (with voicing the dental /t/ > /d/ before nasal /n/), extended in
> comparative suffix -*ter.
> So, Albanian, in this case, treats this labiovelar as did the centum
> languages.
> In other case, <bushtër> 'bitch', also an extended form in
> comparative suffix -ter, Proto-Albanian treats this root as P-Celtic.
>
> Konushevci