Gasiarowski wrote:
> Sorry, but the correct reconstruction of the 'hand' word is *g^He(:)
sr-
> (Hitt. kessar, Gk. kHeir, Alb. dorë, etc.) How on earth would you
derive
> <ghearã> from it?
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One of the reasons why I doubt that palatals behave differently,
preceded by nasals, are the word <dorë> 'hand' < *g^He:r-so-,
metathetic variant of suffixed form *g^He:s-ro-, because I think that
Alb. verb <ngjesh> 'to press, to compress, to condense' (see also
Latin <press> from *ghes-to-) I suppose is derived from prefixed
unmetathetic form *n-g^Hes (*e >je, g-j>gj), besides many dialectal
forms, like: i gjelbtë 'salted', i njelmtë 'id.'.
Konushevci