Re: Proper methodology (was: RE: [tied] Re: Mother of all IE langua

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:27:16 +0100 (MET), Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
<jer@...> wrote:

>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.

And then again, it can be as DQ Adams says.

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv@...