[tied] Re: Dog

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 25-01-04 19:43, Richard Wordingham wrote:
>

> *k^wn.to- would have developed into *c'Wat- > *c^at > Mod.Alb. *sat

(in

> Geg or Tosk alike)! Lat. canem was borrowed as *kan/*k'en(i), with

the

> umlauted plural stem <qen> generalised, as in gjel 'cock' <
> *gal/*g'el(i) <-- gallum, another "singularised plural" of Latin

origin.

>
> Piotr

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But, how do you explain the lack of rhotacism in Tosk dialect and
nasalism, too. You agree that in the case of Alb. <njoh> from
*g^ne:sko the palatal was treated as plain velar, but in the case of
*k^wn.-to, you deny it. Isn't it contradictio in adjecto?


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