Re: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots

On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:16:41 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>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.

It's not a labiovelar, it's a "palatovelar" *k^ followed by *w.
Alb. kudër cannot be derived from *k^won-. Perhaps it belongs to the group
of Grk. skulax, Ir. cuile:n, Lith. kale: "puppy, bitch" (*skeu-l-,
*skeu-n-?).

>In other case, <bushtër> 'bitch', also an extended form in
>comparative suffix -ter, Proto-Albanian treats this root as P-Celtic.

Again, that's impossible. There is no *kW here, and even if there were,
P-Celtic has *kW > *p, not *b.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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