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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> 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

cs changed to c too...

Also je is well attested in Decebal's Times see Diegis, Tsierna etc...
so je is old enough