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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
> > >The old adjectival function would also
> > >explain why all forms made with this /o/ are thematic.
> >
> > If the length in Grk. o:kus can be explained by the same

procedure

> (*h2ak^-
> > => *o-h2k^-u/r- > o:k^-u/r-), then not _all_.
>
> I am certainly open to new information about the prefixed/infixed
> (-)o-. As for o:kús 'fast', I am not sure it is related to
> ákros 'sharp', but I wouldn't like to exclude it either. I have
> taken pains to keep away from enigmatic material in establishing

the

> basis of the phenomenon.
>

The reason I asked is I'm reading a collection of papers by
Vennemann, as I announced ;-), and in one he refers to a dialect of
Basque which has preposed the usual definite Basque 'article' -a,
thus <a (noun)-a>. And Vennemann says substrate etc etc.

Torsten