Re: [tied] Terminology (Re: Piotr-)

02-09-03 02:00, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> In my view, due too many researches I have made about inherited Alb.
> lexicon, the palatals and labiovelars, if are they preceded or
> followed by nasals and liquids, they are behaving like pure velars.

Not when _preceded_. For example, PIE *Horg^Hi- 'testicle' (Gk. orkHis)
gives Alb. erdhe ~ herdhe. As far as I can see, the change of *-rg^(H)-

> Alb. -rdh- is completely regular. The Romanian rivername Argesh has

to be explained differently (if it really comes from something like
*h2arg^es-jo-).

Piotr