Re: alb. gji (breast) - maybe PIE *sei-N-

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 12:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: [tied] Re: alb. gji (breast) - maybe PIE *sei-N-
> >
> >
> >> What speaks against of a form like "*sain"?
> >
> > P.S.: *ai > e in Albanian
> >
> > Piotr
>
>
> looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool
> you are funny Piotr:-)) Somewhere seems this "sain" should not be

so

> bad:-))

And a Latin +saenus (+ means non-existent) would have yielded
Romanian *$in! So would Latin _si:nus_ 'large cup'. On the other
hand, Latin sa:nus 'healthy' should yield Romanian sân. Have we got
some weird vowel 'feature' in the Romance front vowels at work here?

si:nus > *sinu > $in
sinus > *senu > sîn = sân
senus > *sEnu > $in
sanus > *sanu > sân = sîn

Richard.