On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> [...] according to EIEC, Alb. u ~ ju < *(u)swes, cf. Alb. u
> "oneself"
> < *swe),
Albanian nom. ju may reflect IE *yus in the same manner as jo- reflects
*sa:. The reflex of initial *s- and *y- before vowels is <gj->, and the
lenited version of that is j-. A long *-u:- should of course yield -i- in
a monosyllable, but what are we to expect in a reduced word? I therefore
strongly believe that ju is *yu:s. The oblique u can be the enclitic *wos.
Jens