Re: [tied] PIE *s- > Albanian gy-

Thanks, Piotr...

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 6:11 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] PIE *s- > Albanian gy-


> 04-01-04 16:25, Mate Kapovic wrote:
>
> > Can somebody explain to me in detail how the PIE *s- developed into
Albanian
> > gy-? Is there something else attested in Old Albanian instead of this
gy-
> > here?
>
> I think the sound has been palatal [g^] throughout the recorded history
> of Albanian. It reflects not only *s- but a variety of other sources
> (*j-, *g- before front vowels, also in Latin words, *gl- in most
> dialects of Albanian). It's supposed to have been alveopalatal *z^ at
> one point, the voiced counterpart of <sh> [s^], which is the other
> common development of *s in Albanian. It seems that prevocalic *s
> underwent voicing to *z in stressed syllables already in pre-Roman
> times; more recently (in the early Middle Ages) the pair *s, *z changed
> into "shibilant" *s^ and *z^. As a result, *z^ merged with the
> "hardened" reflex of *j (found both in native and in Latin words); this
> *z^ then developed into a palatal stop, presumably via some kind of
> palatal affricate (palatal stops are rarely unaffricated anyway).
>
> Piotr
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