Re: PIE Stop System

> I have a question regarding "n-gjamë". This word looks too similar

to

> Rom. "îngemãna" supposed to derive from "geamãn"( twin) supposed to
> derive from Latin "geminis" , Latin geminis= unsure etimology.
> What makes it so sure that the word "n-gjamë" is derived from *sem-

? I

> think now at Alb. "shembellen" with the same meaning as "ngjamë". In
> fact here we have two pair of words to compare:
> geminis - gjan
> similar - shhembellen
>
> which one of Alb. words are now from *sem- ?
>
> Alex

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I doubt that much closer and much more related is Romanian verb
<asemnare> 'to look like, to resemble', preserving much older form.
By the way, which is the etymology of this word in Romanian?

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