The palatal sham :) (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (1))

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> The point is that *k, and *a, occur in PIE itself. The suffix *-(i)

ko, for

> instance, or the verb *kap- (c.q. *ghabh-) are Proto-Indo-

European. These

> items can hardly have been borrowed from one of PIE's own daughter
> languages, no matter how undocumented it is.
>

Møller reconstructs Pre-IE-Semitic *k-H-b- 'take' > PIE *ka:p- and

> 'Ursemitisch' *K.-H-p- or *G.-H-p- in eg Arabic gaHafa 'he took

away, carried away, removed the whole of it'. If we understand that
instead as loan from the old Mideast NE Caucasian language into both
language groups, we have a donor language for PIE, most likely in
the '/a/-poor' stage.

Torsten