From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 38920
Date: 2005-06-24
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:************
> > elmeras2000 wrote:
> >
> >> Is it really possibly to get Gk. kri^ and kri:thé: 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
>
> as I pointed on balkanika, maybe the Alb. word is not related at all
> here with hordeum and Gerste. Fro this see South Slavic "trice/trici"
> and
> Rom. "tãrâtse". The voicing of tr to dr in Alb. should be seen as in
> "drandafill" versus "trandafir"
>
> Alex