Re: [tied] Re: Risoe fo the Feminine

On Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:01:31 +0200, Sergejus Tarasovas
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>> From: Miguel Carrasquer [mailto:mcv@...]
>
>> What about the Albanian forms? IEW gives vido, vito, vidheze
>> "Taube". EIEC gives vida "dove". I'm curious about the
>> dental. vito < *h2wéit-? (Leiden is down again, so I can't
>> check Demiraj).
>>
>
>Albanian form: vito {1} [f] (t)
>
>Meaning: dove
>
>Proto-Albanian: (a)uit-
>
>Other Alb. forms: vide? [f] (g) `dove'; vit/d [interjection] {2} (g)
>
>See also: avdose?
>
>Page in Demiraj AE: 420
>
>IE reconstruction: h2eui-(to-)
>
>Meaning of the IE root: bird
>
>Page in Pokorny: 86
>
>Greek: ?????? `eagle'
>
>Other IE cognates: Bret. houad `duck'
>
>Notes: {1} The auslaut derives from an exclamation particle (-)o, which also occurs as a grammatical characteristic of the Alb. vocative. {2} Call for pigeons.

Thanks. I'm a bit surprised by the proposed origin of -o...

Anyways, Albanian a- > 0- (Lat. ami:cu > mik) makes the
Albanian form undecisive about the Anlaut (the proposed IE
reconstruction *h2awito- can also be *h2wito-, or *h2weito-).
The *-t- is certainly very interesting...


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