Re: [tied] There is no sw- > d- in Proto-Albanian

On 6/21/05, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

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

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Sorry, but simply I can't, despite all my efforts. Maybe Richard or
Piotr could help us through the inserting of proper symbols, but from
the context it's not hard to be understand the outcomes of *sw- before
voiced consonant and before semivowel.

Konushevci