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

27-01-04 16:02, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> To my view, if we deal with the root *sworgH- 'diseas, sickness',
> first we have verbal suffix -yo (that cause palatalization of the
> velar) *sworgH-yo 'to be sick' > *dargj, that latter became *dargjë <
> *sworg-yo-ah2, through pluralised singular, <dergjë>. Verb
> <dergjem> 'to be sick, to lie down' is therefore very recent
> denominal.
> But, because the verb <dergjem> `to be sick' and <keqem> `to lose
> one's health' are synonymic pair, I am afraid that Alb.
> <dergjë> `sickness' should be prefixed form of metathetic variant of
> *ad- + airgi-_o (<aig-ro > i egër `wild, bad' and *ko-aigi-_o- > i
> keq `bad', Pokorny, *aig- `sick, ill').

All this metathetic business is too wild and too bad for my taste. As
for the derivation of <dergj->, the recipe for a causative is as
follows: take a root (*swergH-), make it an o-grade (*sworgH-) and add
the suffix (*-eje/o-), lost in Modern Albanian but leaving umlaut of the
root vowel as its trace (*sworgeje- > *zvärgi- > *Dergj- > dergj-). Of
course the o-grade produces also other derivatives, including deverbal
nouns. This doesn't mean that the causative itself is denominal.

Piotr