Re: [tied] Re: Question on Albanian sy

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> 1. SPITZER -> treats va as cognate of vadum

Well, it even seems to be the same word :-)

> 2. JOKL -> admits the possibility of an Indo-European source of va

Inasmuch as Lat. vadum is IE, so is Alb. va.

> 3. MANN -> reconstructs *wadhom

The reconstruction is needed for the Latin word, but this would have
yielded Alb. *vad(h) rather than <va> (m.)

Piotr