From: Piotr Gasiorowski Message: 42452 Date: 2005-12-07
alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> So is clear that the suffix or the suffixes was/were added later
> on the top of mádhë-
The stressed -i:- is late (and steals the accent from the initial
syllable), but the base to which it was attached may be as old as
anything in Albanian. If we are dealing with something roughly parallel
to Lat. maies-ta:-t-, one would expect PAlb. *má3ësta:-.