Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
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>> Interesting interpretation. Latin loans have been affected *too* by
>> this law. That does not tell us anything about the begining of the
> change,
>> thus I don't know how one want to prove that "nd" was not active
>> before Latin loans. Maybe some Doric/Greek loans will show it?
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>> Alex
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> *enteros > 'i ndjerë', *newn.-ti > (g.) nândë, (t.) nëndë 'nine'.
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> Konushevci
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I guess here I have made a "Denkfehler". Of course such loans from
Doric/Greek will be of no help since if the law begins to work just in
the Roman time, these loans from Doric/Greek will be affected as well
*in* Roman time.
Hmm... I guess there is no satisfying way on this path which can show us
if the law worked before roman times as well.
It seems there is a way only to find out. Since Romanian did not changed
Latin "nt" in "nd", meaning that for Latin "menti:re" in Rom. is "ment-"
and in Alb. "mënd-" that will be easy if the lexica will help us:
- we have to find out if there are common Romanian-Albanian words which
presents an "nd" *and* due other IE languages, the PIE root was
reconstructed with "nt".
If we find such words, then it is very possible the law was at work
before Roman times.Other idea for dating the begin of this law in
Albanian?
Alex?