Re: [tied] Re: Satem and desatemisation (was: Albanian (1))

27-01-04 14:45, elmeras2000 wrote:

> Much as I would like to accept it, precisely in the present middle
> labiovelars also show the secondary palatal: digjem 'I am being
> burnt', piqet 'it is baked'. Also I cannot see we really know that
> de- is umambiguously from (umlauted) *swo- and cannot be from *swe-;
> I know dje- in sw-words only in djersë 'sweat' which must have *-ei-
> , not *-e-.

True, but it's difficult to see why dipthongisation should have been
blocked after *sw-. I'd expect to see *djarg- as the reflex of *swergH-,
though of course absolute certainty is unattainable when Albanian is
concerned :-(. A causative makes sense here, doesn't it?

> If we allow sorrë to be decisive we are in agreement. Then kohë and
> vb. korr, sbst. korrë *must* have plain velars that avoided being
> palatalized for that very reason. The idea behind it all is of
> course still Pedersen's.

You mean Holger, not Torsten :-)?

Piotr