Re: [tied] Albanian outside the centum-satem division?

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From: Abdullah Konushevci
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Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 5:30 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Albanian outside the centum-satem division?


> I am working in other cases and I hope that until the end of the week I
> will finish all outcomes of palatals, labio-velars and plain velars.

Very interesting. And here's what I've found on the problem:

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The main examples of 'pure velars' which were not palatalized by a following
front vowel are the following:

(1) gjenj 'finde', Gr. khandáno:, Lat. pre-hendo:.

(2) dergjem 'bin krank', Lith. sergit, OHG. sorga.

(3) ergjiz 'kleine Laus', Lith. erke.

(4) helq 'ziehe', Gr. élko:.

(5) kohe 'Zeit', Slavic casU.

(6) qell 'bringe', Gr. kélomai.

(7) qeth 'schere', Lith. kertit, Gr. keíro:.

This material is not convincing. As Hermann pointed out in his discussion of
the problem (1907: 47f.), the velars may have been restored analogically in
these words. This is certainly the case with qell, which cannot be separated
from sjell (cf. Jokl 1963: 126). The word ergjiz, the closest cognate of
which is Arm. orj^il, offers various problems in several IE languages.

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Source:

Frederik Kortlandt: "Albanian and Armenian",
https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/handle/1887/1852

Grzegorz J.





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