Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>
> [AK]
> I think that Alb. <rreth> (pl. rrathë) 'circle, region' is from an
> lengthened o-grade form *ro:g^-, besides others derivates: <i
> drejtë> 'right' from d-reg^-to-, <mbroth> 'to prosper, to

flourish'

> from an lengthened e-grade *mb-re:g^- and <rrjedh> from basic root
> *reg^-

Hey, am I missing a point? How can Alb. e/a be from /o:/? And how is
the semantics to be understood: "straight" > "circle", as a
prep. "around", strikes me as distinctly wrong. It really takes
a "lengthened o-grade" to drive this one home.

Jens