Re: [tied] Alb. djathtë -- Where does the come from? (the sol

alex wrote:

> for 1: if you mean with "z" the sonor "s" then I guess the intermediary
> *z there is a wrong postulate. The "gj" is to explain other way, via an
> another "altered" sound, but not from a clear "z" as in Slavic "za".

Whatever it was, it was the voiced counterpart of *s. If you know the
phonetic details, o sage, please enlighten us.

> for 2: s > sh regardless if the following vowel was stressed or not, see
> the final "sh" or Latin loans (shálë, shékull, shénjë)

These Latin words were borrowed after the operation of the voicing rule.
It was no longer productive, so new loans were exempt from it. Most
inherited _initial_ *s's yield Mod.Alb. <gj-> precisely because of the
Proto-Albanian preference for word-initial stress.

Piotr