Re: [tied] Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between Greek

12-07-03 22:15, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> PIE root *g^hordh- derives in Albanian <gardh> 'hedge, fence',
> through regular changes /*o/ > /a/ and /-rd-/ > /-rdh-/. This word
> is preserved in place name Zgërdhesh < s- + gardh + -esh, one of
> oldest toponym.

Some of the oldest -- in what sense?

> So, in most ancient words, that couldn't be a loans, exept for non-
> scientific reasons, as you see, the rule that palatals derives in
> Albanian always interdentals, is not true.

Whay can't it be a loan? What's unscientific about such a possibility?
Anyway, Slavic has *gordU as well, which to my mind suggests that either
Slavic and Albanian borrowed the word separatly from a similar non-Satem
source (Germanic?) or Albanian (and Romanian) borrowed it from early
(pre-metathesis) Slavic, which took it from Germanic.

Piotr