Re: [tied] PIE Stop System

tgpedersen wrote:

>
> [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

I guess here is the question about the semantic value of "in". For your
"in-warm" you have the same in Rom.
warm = cald; to warm up= încãlzi (< in+cald). I think the semantic
function of "in" in this case as in Germanic "ein-" where this "prefix"
show the beginn of an action like ein-tauchen, ein-leuchten,
ein-frieren, ein-feuern usw, meaning "begining to ..."

Alex