Re: [tied] Re: Proto-Albanian Timeframes

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42450
Date: 2005-12-07

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> But in this case we cannot explain Alb. edh from the same root (in
> this case *aig^-)and both words dhi and edh seems quite related (only
> the stress was different on the same root)

<edh> is most likely from *h2aig^-, but there's no law demanding that
all 'goat' words in Albanian, or any other language, must come from the
same root. The opposite is often the case (cf. Lat. haedus, hircus,
caper, etc.), so <dhi> may well have a different etymology.

Piotr