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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > There was a semantic shift between "to think" and "to remember",
as
> > testifies at least Alb. Latin loan <kutjoj> 'to remember' from
> > <cogitare> 'to think', through soundlaw VDV (D= voiced stop) -> V.
> > This loan preserves primary meaning only in the adjective <i
> > kujtueshëm> 'mindful'.
> >
> > Konushevci
> >
> > Konushevci
>
> Since it seems the role of PIe "*s" is not clarified, it would
maybe of
> help to know what in Balcanic Languages,Slavic, Germanic and Italic
this
> "s" prefix does.
>
> So far I am informed, in Slavic, the prefix "s" has an intensifying
> function. What about this function in Albanian Abdullah? Is too an
> intensifying preffix or not?
>
> Alex
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As far as I know, Alb. prefix (preverb) s(ë)- with variants so-/su-
or voiced ones z(ë)- before voiced stops, has many functions.
With intesifying meaning we find it in: <provoj> 'to proove',
<sprovoj> 'to experience, to go through', <kuq> 'to dye (in red), to
rouge', but <skuq> 'to roast', etc. As preverb, making factitive-
causatives: zbeh 'to (make) pale', ia behu 'to come swiftly like
light, to pop in, to come unexeptedly', <pastroj> 'to clean',
<spastroj> 'to purge, to purify'.
Its variations so- is present in <sohia> 'shade' (cf. <hie> 'shadow',
and <suvalë> 'breaker, billow surge' (cf. <valë> 'wave' (Çabej-
Xhuvani "Parashtesat e gjuhës shqipe").
I guess that its origin can't be devided from PIE *ksun-, basic form
*su(n)- (cf. Greek syn-, Slavic so-, s-.
I believe that here belongs too another Alb. prefix sh- with its
variang zh- before voiced stops: ndrit 'to shine', <shndrit> 'to be
radiant', shkabë 'eagle', zhgabonjë 'id.' etc.
Konushevci