Re: [tied] Re: done + Gothic?

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>> Alex
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> I know that I have written in Balkanika about these cognates in
> Rumanian, Albanian and Slavic. About Alb. <gati> I could say that -i
> is locative ending, present also in <tashti/tani> and as well in <së
> voni> 'lately', <së miri>, probably from <në së miri> 'on the good',
> së keqi <on the bad> etc.
> As a verb <gatit> it has the meaning "to prepare" (cf. also për-gatit
> 'id.'). As interjection <Gatitu> 'Shun!'.
> In many contexts it is synonymic with <afër> 'nearly, about':
> ngat/afër të njëzetave 'about twenty years old'. So, if we take a
> look in adj. <i ngatë> 'akin, cognate' I think that it can't be
> separated from PIE *g'no-to-: Gr. <gnotos>, Sl. <po-znat> etc.
>
> Konushevci

1) the aspects of "to prepare", is known in Rum. as well but there is
the form "a gãti"
which semanticaly seems to be some different from "a gãta"= to
finish. apparently in
Alb. both forms are merged together since "gatit" means to prepare
and to finish
2) why should be "ngatë" related to "gatit"? I don't see the semantic
evolution here.
Could you give a try?
3) there is no way to get Rum. "g" from "gn"; the "gn" cluster (even
from an "g'n" )
became "mn" and could eventually get reduced to "n" or "m" but never
"g".


Alex