Re: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots

08-07-03 16:34, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> I rest my too with remark that in <qarr> 'oak' we have to deal with
> irregular plural, sing. <qerr>, preserved in place name Qerret (cf.
> rreth 'circle', pl. rrath 'circles'; thes 'sack', pl. 'thas'), so
> derivation from *kWerkW- > *kjerr > qerr is more then simple: *e>je
> and assimilation of -rkW > -rr.

Except that a inherited *kW would have been palatalised before a front
vowel, yielding Modern Albanian /s/, _and_ that there is no assimilation
of *-rkW- into *-rr- in Albanian (as opposed to *-rn- > *-rr-, which is
a regular development), _and_ that there is no independent evidence for
your labiovelar assimilation at a distance, so you have to propose it
entirely ad hoc. In other words, your derivation fails on three counts.
Quite an achievement for such a short word ;-)

Piotr