Re: [tied] h1,h2,h3 in Albanian

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...>
wrote:

>
> If you agree that *H1ep- with o-grade *H1op- yields in Alb. <hap> and
> related words <prapë> 'again', <prapa> 'back': ON after: Hett. appa:

Gr.

> opithen ("Vare Arveord Etymologis Ordbok" by Harald Bjovrand & Fredrik
> Kortland, Oslo 200, pp. 20) and *H1ed- 'to eat', which thematic form
> *H1edom- yields Alb. <ha> 'I eat': OHG ezzen: Lat. edere: Sl.

jesti 'id',

> then *H1ag'- 'to drive, lead' and its o-grade form seems to continues
> regular outcome *H1o > Alb. /ha/ (*H1(ed)óm, *H1op-o > Alb. <hap>, as

well

> as *H1og'mo-lo > hulli 'furrow').
>

If I understood what you said earlier correctly, then you want to
connect direction adverbs, eg Hittite appa: with the *Hap- "water"
word, which is why you reconstruct it with as *h1ep-/*h1op-? But if the
word was a loan from a (perhaps no longer existing) AfroAsiatic
language, the perhaps the *(H)a- part was a prefix which also might
explain volatile laryngeal and perhaps the vowel alternation (if from
a/u); se the Ehret quote in
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Nostratic-L/message/4168


Torsten