Re: [tied] Prothetic d-? [was: Alb. djathtë]

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> The prothetic d(h) < PAlb *dz in Albanian
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> I present 2 cases (to respect the rule):
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> a) dh- in dhelpër 'fox' is a prothetic dh- PAlb. *dz + *wo:lpa-na
> *wo:lpi-na or something similar where we can easy identify the PIE
> root for 'fox' etc..if we will remove the initial dh-

*wo:lpa/i- is the PIE word for 'fox'? I suppose you need the *o: to
explain the <e>, since there's no other evidence for a long vowel at
this point. <dhelpër, dhelbun-> is so obscure that it could be almost
anything, e.g. *g^HolbHino- 'yellowish' (cf. Lat. galbinus).

> b) dh- in dhemje is a prothetic dh . See:
> dhemje ~ vemje <-> Rom. omida < PAlb. wo:mida: 'magot, larva,
> caterpillar'. This example for which we have also 2 forms without dh-
> one in Albanian and one in Romanian is more than obvious.

_More_ than obvious? It's far less than obvious to me that these words
are related at all.

Piotr