--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
wrote:
>
>
> In EtruscoCypriot, *wenakta would simplify to *wenata, and
> regularly became Etruscan /vantH/, the protectoress of
> the dead with hammer and wings (both symbolic derivations of
> the original double-axe icon).
>
>
> = gLeN
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One of prehistoric Albanian sound-law was exactly the reduction of
the cluster -kt- > -t-: *nokW-t- > natë 'night', *sekti > shat 'hoe'
(Pokorny, *sek-), PN Arktos > Artë, until in historic time clusters -
kt- and -pt- have developed in -jt- and -ft-: Lat. directus > Alb.
drejt, Lat. aptus > Alb. i aftë.
Konushevci