Re: about the wrong roots

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> 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.
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

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According to your etymology *skeu-l- or *skeu-n, we will have in
Albanian *hentër or, the hell know, because, as you know, PIE *sk- >
Alb. h-.
In this case, why some Proto-Albanian dialect shouldn't treat this
palatovelar as the P-Celtic treats PIE labiovel *kW-.

Konushevci