Re: [tied] Alternance a-u in Romanian, Albanian and maybe in Lithua

> -----Original Message-----

>>>> as I know the
>>>> alternace a-a a-u is present also in Lithuanian, but I haven't
>>>> enough knoledge on this

>> "I don't follow. Could you elaborate on that or give an example?"
>
> I can give you some examples:
>
> I. From Pokorny root a:p-2 we have:
> Rom. apa 'water'
> Lit. ùpė, Lett. upe `water, river, river stream'
> OldPruss. ape `river', apus `spring, fountain, stream, brook'
> Old Indian āp- f. `water'
> maybe also :
> Dacian Zaldapa -> Zald 'gold' - apa 'water'
>
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> So Rom. apa - Lit. ùpė
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Thank you. I cannot comment on the other examples -- asking for examples I
meant Lithuanian only.
East Baltic *upe: (Lith. ùpe:, Latv. upe) indeed looks aberrant (if one
wants to derive it from PIE *h2ap- 'water'), but whatever be its origin,
it's not what one would readily call "alternace a-a a-u in Lithuanian",
wouldn't he? Just an isolated word of unknown history.

Sergei