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

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>
> VI. Rom. sudui 'to insult' - Alb. shaj 'id'
> <- from PAlb. *sadunja or *swadunja
>
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> So Rom. udu - Alb. -*adu-
> ------------------------------------
>
> [AK]
> As I have claimed also in Balkanika, Alb. <shaj> is straightforward
> form *sal-yo of PIE *sel- and Romanian of Slavic <suditi> `to judge,
> accuse, insult'.

Abdullah, you cannot derive "sudui" from Slavic "suditi"; the second "u"
there is not explanable via Slavic. One example should be Slavic "truditi"
which yelded "trudi" and not an "*trudui" as expected from a such assumtion.



Alex