Re: [tied] Re: Dacian - /H/ -> seems possible

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 16:16:03 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>I claim, based in facts, that in Albanian is common, to not say,
>proverbial, aphaeresis of unstressed vowels at the beginning of the
>words and I based it in many examples:
>
>Lat. amicu > Alb. mik `friend',
>Lat. Apriles > Alb. prill,
>Lat. Augustus > Alb. gusht `august',
>Lat. avunculs > ungj `uncle'
>Greek anaphora > naforë `communion bread', etc.

Summarizing what you said, you want to add the following entry to this
list:

Illyr. Avlona > Alb. Vlonë/Vlorë

>And which are your linguistic objections?

If Avlona > Vlorë proves that Albanian descends from Illyrian, then amicu >
mik "proves" that Albanian is descended from Latin...

As Piotr said: "So far, you've only given us an alphabetic
list of ancient "Illyrian" placenames, showing that their phonological
form has been transformed by Albanian sound changes. Well, that's what
we should expect anyway, since the sound changes in question are
post-Roman and would have affected any word borrowed during the early
Middle Ages."


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