07-07-03 23:09, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> Why the long vowel?
>> Piotr
> ************
> Because of regular change of PIE *e: > Alb. o: *pe:d-su, loc.
> sing. 'at the foot' > Alb. posh, Gr. me:, Alb. mo-s 'not'.
> SANCTA SIMPLICITAS.
That's not what I meant. Why _PIE_ *pe:kW-? The present stem was
*pekW-e-, with a short vowel. You are not free to posit a long vowel ad
hoc, without a word of justification, just because a short one doesn't fit.
Anyway, since PIE *pekWo: 'cook' is reflected in Albanian as <pjek>
'bake' (with the expected regular developments and no labiovelar
assimilation), it makes no sense to insist that it's _also_ reflected as
<sos> 'finish' (which you can't derive without making quite a few
unwarranted "special" assumptions).
Piotr