Re: [tied] Albanian chronology [was: something else]

From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 28120
Date: 2003-12-08

On Mon, 08 Dec 2003 08:44:05 +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

>08-12-03 02:24, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
>> 5) NS > S *penkWe > pesë "5", *memsom > mish "meat"
>
>These are two different things The loss of nasals before PIE *s is
>certainly earlier (though I'm not sure how early), and there is no trace
>of nasalisation in Albanian: *mems- > *miNs- > mish.

Is that raising of /e/ before N(C) or what Beekes calls "*e > i, condition
unknown" (as in nip, vit)?


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