Alb. "vatër" ( it was (Re: [tied] Re: Albanian valle )

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>
> > The output of *h2ah1- (+ consonant) in pre-Alb. is of course *a:
> > (after the loss of the laryngeals), which is regularly rounded to

*o

> > > Common Albanian *wo, with a prothetic *w also found in loans

from

> > Latin, and with the regular unrounding of the vowel in some

dialects.

> > There's no "vae~voe" anywhere in this derivation.
> >
> > Piotr
>
> I am not so sure we have to deal with a prothetic "w" here. There

are

> several facts which will speak for a diphtongation of "o"

to "oa"(wa) and

> from that point the consonification of "w" at the begin of the

word.

Cf. Jysk 'Wolle' < Danish 'Ole', presumably o: > úo > uó > wo . I
think it's likely the 'prothetic' v- of eg. Russian vosem' "eight"
developed the same way: o > uó > wo > vo .

Torsten