[tied] Re: about the wrong roots

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 24265
Date: 2003-07-07

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
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As was noticed by Meyer and Jokl, there are in Albanian language
quantitave and qualitative Ablaut or Apophony. Cf. Alb. bie < *ber-
(Lat. phero) and borë < be:ra: 'snow' (quantitative apophony),
besides qualitative one: pjek < *pekW-, but aor. poqa 'I have
baked', etc.

Konushevci