From: alex
Message: 38915
Date: 2005-06-24
> elmeras2000 wrote:as I pointed on balkanika, maybe the Alb. word is not related at all
>
>> Is it really possibly to get Gk. kri^ and kri:th�: out of something
>> with a syllabic r?
>
> I'd prefer a derivation from full-grade *g^HrezdH- with the sporadic
> raising of *e before some clusters (you know the showcase examples).
> How else can one connect it with <hordeum> and Germanic *gersto: (the
> latter presumably with a new e-grade)?
>
> Piotr