Re: [tied] Outcome of PIE *s > Alb./j/ (was Rom aia - Alb ajo)

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>
> It was exactly this pronominal stem of demonstrative pronouns that
> push me to treat the issue of Albanian demonstrative pronouns as
> compounds, for prior we have the consent of this well-known scholar,
> that first parts of Albanian pronouns could be recunstructed as we
> have propose from PIE *ko(m)- and *au- (<H2eu). So, as it is cleat,
> demonstrative pronoun <ajo> `she' (often used in form like <�ajo> to
> be different from personal pronoun)

so, no big deal since you have the same thing in Rom. "aia" versus
"ceia" thus Alb. �ajo" has the perfect counterpart in Rom. "ceia"; the
Alb. "aj" here should be from an older *�eja:" which yelded "�ajo". The
only problem is again the time line since if such a ecuation is true,
then we have these changes in an non datable time. Prior to anything
wrote.


, derived from *H2eu- + *saH2 (as

> per Beeks *seH2) > au + sa: > a + jo > ajo `she' ( PIE *au > a, *a:
>> o and *s > j).

if the Com. counterpart is a true then the derivation is wrong. you
cannot have in Rom. an "aja" from an "*au-sa".Of course you can say here
the word is a loan from Albanian after "s" > "j" but before "a:" > "o".

> In the same way we could reconstruct <kjo> `this' <
> *ko(m)- +saH2 > k�jo (attested until in our times) > kjo. Due to the
> same rule we may explain masculine forms <ai/aj> `this, he' and
> <ky> `that' (<*au- + *so and *ko(m) +so).

If I remember right, St�lting sustain that the prefixation with "k" is
recent in Albanian.

> Konushevci

Alex




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