Re: Alb. suffix "-oj"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> I am trying to put all the data about Latin loans in Albanian in a
> database. Working on it, I observed that the Latin verbs have been
> "albanised" suffixing the Latin verb with the suffix "-oj".
>
> Some examples for loans from Latin into Albanian:
>
> detegere > dëftoj
> dirigere > dërgoj
> desiderare > dëshiroj
>
> Question:
>
> which is the origin of this suffix "-oj"? Which is its function?
>
> Alex

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About subtype of the verbs in -onj, Meyer and Meyer-Lübke think that
its origin is in the Latin adjectives in -o:nius. H. Pedersen rejects
this thesis, believing that it is inherited and is a result of long
PIE *a:-, but according to Shaban Demiraj, it could be also from PIE
long *e:-. Otherwise, *-eyo is verbal (transitive) suffix *-e:
stative-intransitive.

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