On 04-11-30 20:45, alex wrote:
> Reading this and thinking about one asks himself what about Albanian
> "sorrë"? If the word as Orell here shows
> cannot derive from any *kor- or k^or, then is the word a loan? Or I forgot
> something here since all the time the pair was kept as a true cognate: Rom.
> "c^oarã" (cioarã) with Alb. "sorrë"
You forgot about
(1) *k^w- > *c'W > *c^- > s- (and *g^(H)w- > *3^ > z-);
(2) labiovelars before front vowels (the same development as above)
When <sorrë> was discussed here, the dicussion converged on the optimal
solution: PIE *kWersnah2 (literally 'black (bird)') > *c'We:rna: >
*c'Wa:rra: (--> PBSl. *c'va:r- + -ka: > PSl. *s(v)órka, Lith. s^árka) >
*c^o:rra (--> Rom. cioarã) > sorrë. The root is the same as in PSl.
c^IrnU and Skt. kRs.n.a- 'black' < *kWr.snó-.
A rare example of a pre-Alb. (Dacian?) loan in BSl!
See
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/30228
Piotr