Re: Dog

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

> 26-01-04 10:04, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > I don't think short /a/ in Latin loans was nasalised. As for
> > rhotacism, words like Tosk fre/freri (Geg frê/frêni) < fre:num

differ

> > from <qen> in having no synchronic alternation between /n/ and /r/
> > within Tosk.
>
> Sorry, I didn' finish my thought. If early Tosk originally had

<qen> vs.

> expected *<qeri>, analogical levelling was possible because of the
> retention of the final n in the base form.
>
> Piotr

Question: what should be then with the form "ken-/kan-" mentioned by
Pokorny as meaning "dog" in Thracian? that will mean in the Period of
Time B on your table, the form of *kwon- > kan/ken
By myself I suspsect the "e/a" in the word should be more a schwa if
not a closer vowel. ( for another vowel as clear /e/ or /a/ should be
argumented as usual with the variation of /e/ with /a/ in the Greek
mentions.)


Alex