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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 24469
Date: 2003-07-13

13-07-03 00:49, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> For example, even very recent Turkish loan <sall> 'just, only' <
> Turkish <salte> 'only'.

What does the treatment of a recent borrowing from Turkish have to do
with the supposed treatment of loans from Slavic 1400 years ago? By
"recent" times the word had become structurally indistinguishable from
the inherited lexical stock. It was already "native" in the sense that
no native speaker would have been able to recognise it as a loan. If the
combination /lt/ has survived in words inherited from Proto-Albanian, it
would have survived in <daltë> as well.

Piotr