Re: Early PAlb Depalatisations of k', g' > k, g

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Piotr, if the stressed was still on the first syllable, when

PAlb

> > e > je has started, for sure we need to see a *je or at least

its

> > trace...
> >
> > But in *vë-ha-rë > *vëarë > varë (vajzë) there is no trace of je.
> >
> > In this situation the proposed derivation remains coherent

regarding

> > your obiection.
> >
> > So the stress wasn't for sure on the first syllable when e > je

has

> > started.
>
> So why was it on the second syllable if (1) it wasn't there in PIE

and

> (2) there's no other evidence of a stress-shift from first to

second

> syllable in the history of Albanian? My contention is not that

<varë>

> should be derived from *swéso:r (with initial stress) but that it

isn't

> likely to be related to *swéso:r at all, pace Hamp.
>
> Piotr

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Semantically speaking, Alb. <vaj•zë>, attested dialectal form
<var•zë>, as well as <va(r)shë> is synonym of Alb. <çikë> 'girl,
doughter, virgin'. I don't see any difficulty in deriving it from
*swo-rya 'relative, akin', further suffixed in plural ending -ëz
(cf. Alb. <vëlla> 'brother', pl. <vëllezër or <njeri> 'man', pl.
<njerëz>).

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