Re: [tied] Re: PIE *le:p/*la:b

From: alex
Message: 25807
Date: 2003-09-14

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>> fleaScã= milksop ( about people)
>> fleScãi= something which once was hard and it became weak, with no
>
>> Alex
> ************
> Romanian <fleaScã> 'milksop' is very similar with Alb.
> <flashkë> 'husk' and many other derivates: verb <flashkem> 'to
> wither, to flag', <i flashkët> (syn. i plogtë) 'flagging',
> <flashkësi> 'flagginess, flabbiness' and, if we agree that in
> Romanian we have a diphthongation of stressed /a/, it seems like loan
> word or the word of so-called substratum.
>
> Konushevci

Hey, there is the alternation fl/pl in Alb. too? hmm.... this is funny.
And which should be the PIE root with its evolution in ProtoAlbanaian in
your opinion?


Alex