Re: [tied] Albanian intervocalic s > h

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 38935
Date: 2005-06-27

On 6/22/05, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>

> > 1. Alb. kohë < PAlb *ka:sa: < PIE *ke:sa (see Sl. c^as&)
>
> With *-k^s- not ruled out yet. It would have given Slavic and Old
> Prussian /s/, and I still haven't seen any counterevidence to *k^s > h
> in Albanian.
>
> Piotr
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Eric Hamp on "Evidence for Laryngeals in Albanian" has:

(2) IE *sk'- and *sk- > Alb. /h/: Vaccarizzo /γé/, Sophiko /xée/, def.
/xéa/, Alb. hie 'shadow': Skt. cha:yá, Gk. skiá; Vaccarizzo /γaenza/
'the moon', Sophiko /hënëza>, Geg hânë: Skt. scandra-, candra-, Med.
Breton cann 'full moon'.

(3) IE *ks- > Alb. /h/ [I will add as in (2) also *k's > h]:
Vaccarizzo /γuanj/, Sophiko /huanj/ 'I lend'. Vaccarizzo /-γuay/,
Sophiko /-huaj/, Alb. huaj 'foreign': Greek ksenos.
Vaccarizzo /γirr/, Alb. hirrë 'whey' (ksyrna:): Skt. kshirá-, Avestan
xši:ra, Pers. ši:r, Mungi xšir 'milk' (Sophiko /hirra/ 'whey, def.'
must show a Hellenized palatal before /i/).

Konushevci