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

From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 38884
Date: 2005-06-23

> AK wrote:
> Indeed, in Albanian exists *ts-, *dz- as privative prefix, like Latin
> dis-, Greek dia-,

You are right with the above prefixes, but the prothetic *dz- in
dhëlper and dhemje is not a prefix, is like a prothetic h- in other
contexts. (this prothetic *dz appeared in front of a semi-vowel)


> AK wrote:
> have aproched to the word <gjuhë> derived from attested form <gluha>
> and this from reconstructed form *dlo-sk'a:.

What cognate do you have for *dlo-sk'a:?

Thanks,
Marius