Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>

wrote:

> > > *n-gWhre-sco- > ngroh `to warm',
> > > *n-degW-eyo > ndez `to light, to kindle, to fire',
> > > *n-gWher-enyo > nxej `to heat, to warm up'
> > > *sem- > n-gjamë `similar'
> > > *gWei-tyo- > nxis<n-zis `to encourage, to urge'
>
>> > There was that Albanian *n- prefix again that has puzzled me.

From

> > *in-?

[AK]

> *n(ë)- as prefix, according to Çabej-Xhuvani, as etimologically, as
> semantically is similar to Greek <en>, Lat., OIr. and Got. <in>.
>

*n-gWhre-sco- > ngroh `to warm',
*n-degW-eyo > ndez `to light, to kindle, to fire',
*n-gWher-enyo > nxej `to heat, to warm up'
*sem- > n-gjamë `similar'
*gWei-tyo- > nxis<n-zis `to encourage, to urge'

to in-warm; to in-light; to in-heat, in-warm; in-similar; en-courage

??

The last one I can understand, about the rest my semantic intuition
doesn't match Çabej-Xhuvani's. Is it possible that voiced stops in
Albanian once had a nasalised variant?

Torsten