There is no sw- > d- in Proto-Albanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> In one article "Studies in Indo-European *oi, *ei" Eric Hamp has a
> paragraph "derr and Indo-European Initial", where he explicitly

wrote:

>
> "In dealing (FS J.E. Rasmussen) with tha Albanian fate of PIE *sw-

I

> have reconstructed <derr> 'boar' as a quasi-compound *suH(a)-
> (Ha)(e)rsn-o -> -i 'swine male' > *swarsn-i > *därr> derr. Perhaps
> *sw- developed > šw (as s in other contexts) > *žw (to ž before

voiced

> C, cf. goždë) > Žw (africate before semivowel, as in Italian)
>*Зw
> (sibilant - as in nort Italian) > elimination of affricate, З >

medail

> z (<(-)dy) but Зw- > *dw- > d- (as in degë, xerk, goždë,

xhesh)...

>
> Konushevci
>

Abdullah, please could you re-write this fragment.
It's a very important one in my opinion!

There are strange characters that make impossible the
understanding of the text, that seems to present an important
idea: "africation before semivowel" :

I presented today the same ideea:
1. *s/w > zero -> everywhere
2. and a later prothetic *dz before *w- in some cases:

as in dhelpër, dhemje~vemje~Rom.omida, djell etc...

So there isn't any sw- > d in Albanian, despite Jens and Piotr
opinions.

I will come back with detail derivations on this point too.

Thanks a lot,
Marius