Re: [tied] Re: Albanian names (2) -> Besa, Besiana (Iulia Bessa - P

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 05:41:53 +0100, alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

>Albanian besë seems to do not appear in Demiraj; for the ancient "s" we
>expect in Albanian "sh" like Latin coxa > kofshë. It seems the word
>"besë" and its derivatives is something recent because of "s".

An old *-s- would indeed give Albanian -sh-. Albanian -s- usually derives
from various palatalizations, as in <pesë> "five" < *penkWe-ti, or <mbesë>
"niece, granddaughter" < *nepo:tja:.

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