Re: Late Proto Albanian *3 /dz/ = Early Proto Romanian *3 /dz/

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 04-02-04 07:37, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > I make this reply to make clear that change /k/ > /p/ is present
> > from ancient times, as in Albanian, as in Romanian and, in one

way

> > or other to satisfy my friend George Knysh that Albanian are

also

> > descendants of Poionians, as well as of Dardanians and all other
> > Illyrian tribes.
>
> "Proving" that reflexes *kW and *p alternate Albanian by

suggesting that

> they perhaps did in the almost entirely enigmatic and hard-to-

classify

> dialects of ancient Paeonia or Dardania is a novel methodological
> proposal. You seem to be unable to define "Illyrian" in the first

place

> -- you just lump together all the little-known languages spoken in

the

> area in ancient times and take it to be axiomatically true that

they

> _must_ have been closely related to one another as well as being
> ancestral to Albanian. The resulting notion of "Illyrian" is vague

and

> as easy to play with as plasticine, but it's completely useless

because

> of its meaninglessness.
>
> Piotr

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No, there was something much interesting, regarding the Illyrian and
the Albanian: the outcome of PIE diphthong /*au/ > /a/ (cf.
Taulantia > Talantia; Ausankalie > Asankalis, Bausta > Basta.
Furthermore, as Krahe claims, /au/ is a prefix and preverb too, fact
that I have prove, discussing the first part of demonstrative
pronouns in Albanian: <ai> `he', <ajo> `she', <ata/ato> `they',
accepted by Mr. Jens Elmegaard RASMUSSEN as only valid explanation.

Konushevci