Re: [tied] Re: PAlb *dwai- is reflected in Alb. degë and in Alb d

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>>The Alb. word degë 'forking, crotch (of tree); bough, branch'
>>well reflects a PAlb form *dwai-(ga:) < PIE *dwoi-'binary, two'
>>
>>Its derivation is the following:
>>
>>PIE *dwoi-geh2 > [o>a;eh2>a:]> PAlb *dwai-ga: > [w>zero,ai>e] > degë
>>
>>The same construction is reflected in OHG zwi:g 'id.' (see German
>>zweig)

Not the same. The Germanic forms go back to *twiga- ~ *twi:ga-, and
don't necessarily reflect *dw(e)i-gH-o-, since *dwi-h3kW-ó-
'double-looking' and/or *dw(e)i-kó- (cf. Skt. dviká- 'consisting of
two') are equally possible. The Albanian word is obscure for lack of
better-fitting cognates. It may contain some form of the numeral "two",
perhaps even *dwoi-, but even so it proves nothing about the occurrence
of *dwoih1 as a free-standing form in Proto-Albanian.

Piotr