Re: [tied] Re: Question on Albanian sy

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42366
Date: 2005-12-02

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> My note: seems that now we have a criteria to can determine that
> Albanian va is not a loan from Latin : "the intervocalic d is not
> lost in bi-syllabic words in PAlb"

But it IS lost, even in native words, if the second vowel stays! What
about cases like Alb. be: 'vow' < *be(d)ë < *bHoidH-ah2 (cf. Lat. foedus)?

Piotr