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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:38:25 +0000, tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...>
> wrote:
>
> >> >
> >> >The suffix *-k- Kuhn counts as one charateristic of

Nordwestblock

> >> >placenames. The suffix -ko occurs is Basque too, I read

somewhere?

> >> >Now there's a substrate language to borrow it from already.
> >>
> >> Now how would PIE have borrowed the suffix from Basque?
> >
> >Western IE then.
>
> Sigh. And what is *-ko doing in Eastern IE?
>
>

Better than me trying to wing it here, I think I'll come to that
later.

Torsten