What words reveal Albanian to be satem?
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Sent: 28 April 2005 20:03
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Subject: Re: [tied] Albanian as a satem langauge
David Webb wrote:
> Albanian is meant to be "satem", but the word for 100 is njëqind,
> where një means "one". Isn't qind more likely to be cognate with
> centum than satem?
"qind" is just a loan from Latin with regulat "ce" > "q" phonetical
aspect post Roman invasion in Balkan.
Alex
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