From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 24220
Date: 2003-07-07
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:As you said yourself:
>> 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.
>>
>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-.
>Alb <këlysh>, according to X. Delamarre (VIE, pp. 134) is derivedThe root in question has s-mobile: Greek skulax ~ OIr. cuilén. *k gives
>from *koli- 'jeune chien': (gr.)skul-aks kulla 'id', (alb.)
>këlysh 'id.' (v.irl.) cuilen (gall.) colwyn (bret.) kolen < *koli-
>gno- 'id.', (lit.) kale < *kolya: 'chienne'