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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
> 1. and I found it as a distinct particle in Albanian too: a-të, a-
> si, a-so, a-saj, a-jo
The Albanian element _a-_ has been derived from:
(a) PIE *au (beginning with Pedersen).
or:
(b) A borrowed Latin _atque_ or Romance forms built with its help
_atque_ (beginning with Meyer and Meyer-Lübke respectively).
[For details see Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien, p. 70.]
Note that the monophthongization of PIE *au in Albanian cannot easily
be pre-Roman because it affects such well-established Latin borrowings
as _pak_ < _paucus_ and several others.
W.