From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 30141
Date: 2004-01-28
----- Original Message -----
From: "elmeras2000" <jer@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 3:13 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Slavic *sorka (was: Satem and desatemisation (was:
Albanian (1)))
> >From an unattested language closely related to, if not identical
> with, a prestage of Albanian. The genuinely Balto-Slavic material is
> as in *c^IrnU 'black', OPruss. kirsnan. The rounded palatal
> reflecting the palatalized labiovelar gives it away. The borrowing
> occurred before the dissolution of the Balto-Slavic unity, so the
> loanword is preserved in both branches.
This is totally unnecessary. The word can be derived from PIE regularly with
no problem at all.
Mate