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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> It seems that proto-Albanian had generally
> eliminated obstruent clusters other than *st and *sp (whose special
> status is cross-linguistic), so I'd be most surprised to see -cs- there.

Oops! *sp was eliminated as well, since it changed into /f/, so the
_only_ obstruent cluster safely reconstructible for Proto-Albanian
before the period of Latin loans is *st (modern <sht>). All the other
ones had been simplified or compressed into single segments. That's
fatal for the idea that *-cs- was permitted as well.

Piotr