Argument 3: The derivation of pese: : indeed has no difficulty
as result Demiraj 'indicated very easy'
IE : *penkwe (as you did too).
I'm afraid your grasp of Albanian soundlaws leaves to be desired.
Albanian
> /s/ can be derived from many other sources besides *kW+front vowel.
> There's *ty, *k^y, *k^w, etc.
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...
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Even my soundlaw *-en > (g.) ân, (t.) -ën was objected by Mr.
Rasmussen, I believe that it will easely explain PIE *penkWe- > pesë,
through regular sequence *pânsë > pênsë (attested form even today in
many idioms) and today standard form <pesë> 'five'.
Konushevci