Re: [tied] Albanian as a satem langauge

From: David Webb
Message: 37453
Date: 2005-04-28

What words reveal Albanian to be satem?

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From: cybalist@yahoogroups.com [mailto:cybalist@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
Of alex
Sent: 28 April 2005 20:03
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
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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