Re: [tied] Proto-Albanian Timeframes

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
>
> > Thanks a lot, Abdullah.
> > Piotr, you need to add an argument to the following question:
> > 'Why -(ë)shti in madhështi: couldn't be added later?"
> >
> > I ask this because -(ë)shti seems to be an 'active' suffix in
> > Albanian...
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Marius
> >
>
> And also what is the source of this final -i: (knowing that i:>i

in

> PAlb.)?
> I ask this because if it shoud be a tj- there...for sure the

suffix

> (ot at least its later part) was added later.
>
> Marius

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According to Mr. Rasmusen, it is loaned from Greek suffix -ia. But,
if we take into consideration the word <thëni/thëri> 'louse', derived
from *k'onida: or *k'nida:, I guess that it is the result of
compensatory lengthening as a result of contraction. The same
phenomenon we may notice in <fëmi/thëmi> 'child', probably from Latin
<familia> etc.

Konushevci