Piotr wrote:
>There's no evidence for RUKI in Albanian or Armenian, so it actually
>affected Balto-Slavic and Indo-Iranian.
Is difficult to say if there is a RUKI rule in Albanian or not
because s have passed globally to sh.
However is more probable to have a RUKI Rule in Proto-Albanian at
least regarding u and i contexts.
Albanian - Romanian Common Words
Rom. cãpuSã Alb cãpushë
Rom. ghiuj Alb gjysh
Rom. muSkoi Alb. mushk
Rom. guSã Alb. gushë (could be also from Latin)
1. As you case see Rom sh - Rom sh appears only after an u.
Is this a coincidence? Seems more probable to be a rule.
There is a single words:
moS 'old man, grandfather' ~ Alb. moshë 'age'
where we don't have an u in front of a sh. However a reconstruction
is very difficult to be made in this case (if the root is ma:t- or
something similar for sure we have a contraction here maybe with a
suffix -usV too)
2. Also important to say in the Albanian - Romanian Common Words
there is no Rom s - Alb sh after an u.
So these are good reasons to consider that -us > -ush ended in Proto-
Albanian (long) before Latin Times and as result that a sh was
present in Proto-Albanian before s>sh Transformation that happens
somewhere between sec V-VII).
Seems also more plausible that Balto-Slavic, Indo-Iranian and Thraco-
Dacian to go togheter in this direction => The Indo-Iranian split
took place earlier than the split between Balto-Slavic and Thraco-
Dacian.
Best Regards,
Marius Alexandru