--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
wrote:
> At 21:59:32 on Thursday, 7 April 2005, mkelkar2003 wrote:
>
> > So the Albanians got the ending right but lost the
> > beginning s. Russian roulette?
>
> If it were random, it would obviously be *Albanian*
> roulette. But in fact Miguel already pointed out that
> *sn- > s- is regular in Albanian, so no roulette is
> involved.
>
> Brian
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I think that in Albanian we found the same treatment not only for
the outset of cluster *sn- > /n/, but also for the outset of cluster
*sm- > /m/: *smek-ra > Alb. mjekër `chin, beard' (cf. Het. zamankur,
Skr. s'mas'ru, Arm. mawruk', Lit. smakras `id.', Pokorny *smek-968).
It's not different story if this cluster is in coda and even if its
nature is secondary: *es-mi > jam `(I) am' (Pokorny *es 340); Alb.
shkrum `char, cinder'< *krus-mo (Pokorny *kreu1-621).
Konushevci