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

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:34:45 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>According to Piotr and to you the sound changes in question are post-
>Roman and would have affected any word borrowed during the early
>Middle Ages. I claim, like in the case of PIE *wed-, indeed of its
>suffixed o-grade *wodo:r- that this phenonmenon trace its origin also
>in Illyrian place names: Ia-dera > Sl. Zadar, Alb. Zarë, Be-deri-ana,
>also Illyrian place name, through aphaeresis of unstressed syllable *
>(wo)do:r- showing that as Illyrian, as Albanian treat long /*o:/
>> /e/.

Now this example is very different. If the morpheme der- is Illyrian, and
means water, and derives from *wodó:r (*udó:r), then that might be
significant.


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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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