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

Hamp reconstruct the compound *swHa- (Ha)(e)rsn-o/-i. I am not sure is
this Ha > H2, but I guess so, for further derivation is *swarsn-i that
later yields *där (r with dash over) > derr. According to him, perhaps
*sw- developed after in *shu- (as s in other contexts) > zhw (to zh
before voiced C, cf. gozhdë > /dzh/w (africate before semivowel, as in
Italian) > *zw (sibilant – as in North Italian) > elimination of
affticate, zh > medial z (<(-)dy) but zhv->*dw- > d (as in degë, xerk,
gozhdë, xhesh).

Note: /sh/ and /zh/ transcripted as in Albanian. Second part of
compound is PIE root *ers- 'to be in motion' (cf. Eng. race, Lat.
errare < *ersa:-, Skt. rishi 'poet, seer' like mea parvitas,
maharishi, even I am not yet translated into Romanian.

Maybe this will help.

Konushevci
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On 6/21/05, Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> wrote:
> 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
> ************
> 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
>