From: alex
Message: 27185
Date: 2003-11-14
> ************what did happened with "k^m" here? Lost in space, dissapiered without
> 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