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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> >
> > *wik^á:-pot- > *dz^a:(p)t- > zot
> > *wik^á:-potn(i)ja: > *dz^a:(pt)nja: > zonjë
> >
> > *w(i)k^- > *dzw- > *dz^- > z- as in *wik^m.tih1 > *dz^ati- > -zet
> > '20'. Strange but true.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> when should have happened the methathesis then? after k^> z or
before?
> (I assume you see the "z" there from the "k^")
>
> Alex
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I am afraid that PIE *i in Albanian yields /z/: *yes- > zienj 'to
boil' (cf. Greek zeein and zein 'to boil', eczema, Old English gist >
yeast); *yeug^-ma: (cf. Lat. iugum 'yok', Greek zeugma 'bond'), *yo:-
ba:, bilabial extended root > zgjebë 'scabies, desire to lie down'
(cf. Slavic iebati 'to fuck', Lat. iace:re 'to lie down'); Illyrian
Iadera > today Zadar/Alb. Zarë.
So, I believe that we have *wik^m.ti > zati >zet '20' from a zero-
grade form *(w)i:k^m.ti.
Konushevci