[tied] PIE *y > Alb. /z/ (was Re: Romanian Verb )

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> elmeras2000 wrote:
>
> > And the verb to be certainly
> > also qualifies, so janë 'they are' could be a reduced form of
> > (expected) *gjanë from *senti or *sonti.
>
> But would you exclude analogical plurals in j- influenced by the

1/2sg.?

> That would be no stranger than Slavic *jesmU and *jeste, or Lat.

estis.

Of course I can't exclude that. I even have that in the Albanian
historical grammar I made and used for classroom teaching some years
back. I had just forgotten at the moment. There are these
possibilities of course.

Jens