Re: [tied] Albanian N in CC-clusters (review)

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42545
Date: 2005-12-16

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> Piotr, did you know some cognates in -wo? like *kWel-wo- I
> strongly suspect a PAlb * c^e-lwa > c^je-lla (even c^e-la is also
> good based on intervocalic -l- > -ll- in Alb)

In a verb? I don't think anything like that would correspond to a
productive type of IE word-formation. *kWélh1-e/o-, on the other hand,
is both attested and "normal". Other Albanian cognates that can be
understood in terms of IE verb morphology include <qell> 'delay, hold
up' < *kWolh1-éje- and <(për)kul> 'bend, crouch', perhaps a secondary
*-jé/ó- present to *kWl.neh1- (with a nasal infix), i.e. something like
*kWl.n(h1)jé/ó-.

Piotr