Re: [tied] Re: PIE /gn/ > Alb/?/

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>> What did happen to the PIE "gn" cluster in Albanian ? Did it became
>> reduced to "n" or did it suffered other transformations? I ask it
>> because it seems that the Latin group "gn" became simply "n" in
>> Albanian.
>>
>> Alex
> ************
> I think that you are wrong. As far as I know, PIE cluster /gn/, /g^n/
> in Albanian yields /nj/. *g^ne:sco > njoh 'to know' (cf. regarding
> the evolution *g^ > in Satm languages: Zend-Avesta or Slavic znati),
> but prefixed form *n-g^no-tos- > i ngatë 'known' (cf. Lat. gnotus,
> Sl. poznanik 'id.'). See also archive about *ogni, according to C.
> Babaev or with initial syllabic nasal, according to P. Gasiorowski.
>
> Konushevci

that will imply in the time of Roman concuest the /nj/ existed already
in Alb. Lang. since the Latin /gn/ yelded /n/ in alb. Right?

Alex