Re: [tied] Early PAlb Depalatisations of k', g' > k, g

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 38972
Date: 2005-06-29

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> 2. Alb. grerë 'hornet' < PIE *k'rHs-en- -> Lat. cra:bro Lith.
> širšuõ Sl. *s&ršen&
>
> Note-1: I don't know why Dersken didn't put the laryngeal in the PIE
> root of Balto-Slavic forms for 'hornet'.
>
> Note-2: For the explanation of e in grerë we have the regular ue > e.

Where else in Albanian can we see this kind of contraction?

> (via -rHse- > -ruhe- > -rue- > -re-)

So here we have another reflex of intervocalic *-s- -- zero, eh? How is
it conditioned? And how do you explain the voiced /g-/?

Piotr