From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 30029
Date: 2004-01-26
> Retention of the final /n/ we have also in: Lat. fraxinus > (g.)Levelled out in favour of -r in Tosk. The alternation *-n/*-r- has not
> frashën, but Tosk <frashër> 'ash(-tree)'
> , Lat. arena > (g.) rânë, butNon-final (and, of course, non-alternating).
> Tosk <rëra> 'sand',
> Lat. ordo, -inis > (g.) urdhë, (t.)Levelled out as above (no -n/-r- alrternation in Tosk). My guess is that
> urdhër 'order', Lat. orphanus > (g.) i vorfun, (t.) i varfër 'orphan'.
> But, if we consider Illyrian (attested forms for <dog> are <can> and*kWerkW- is not PIE but Italic (from assimilated *perkW-). There's no
> <cand>) as intemediate stage of Albanian, I think that we will have
> no difficulty to explain nor Albanian <qen>, niether Alb.
> <qerr>/<qarr> 'cerris, oak'< *kWerkW-(attested Illyrian forms
> <Kerkyra>/<Korkyra), the thesis that you object constantly.