Re: Albanian ment, 'suckle'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
> language@...> wrote:
>

The most obvious comparison is perhaps with Lat. mando:, -
ere 'chew'. LIV has

> a root *metH2- 'crush', i.e. IE *m"t-ná-H2-ti -> *madn- > Lat.

mand-

> . I do not know what *-tn- would give in Albanian after schwa
> secundum, but I do not really find it particularly likely that it
> gives -nd- as it does in Latin. This does not really add up to
> anything near a safe etymology.
>
> Jens

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*wra:d- `branch, root'. Oldest form *wreH2d-, colored to *wraH2d-,
contracted to *wra:d-
Suffixed nasalised zero-grade form *wr.H2nd-ya: > Alb. Geg <rrânzë>,
Toks <rrëzë> `feet (of the mountain), probably from *wr. > rr, *-edn-

> -en- > Geg <-ân>, Toks <-ën->. So, as *-nd-, as well as *–dn-, to

my view, underwent the assimilation *-nd-/*-dn- > -nn- > -n-.
Cluster /-mb-/-nd-/ are secondary and are result of getting
homorganic sounds m > mb, n > nd. Cf. also Alb. <rrem>, probably
derived from zero-grade form *wrH2d-mo `oar' (dm > mm > m.

Konushevci