Re: Rom. pãstaie ~ Alb. bishtajë => Example of p>b vocalization i

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

> Otherwise, Alb. <bisht> seems to be from *bher- 'to scrape, cut' >
> Alb. <bie> 'to hit, knock' (cf. Sl biti 'to hit', but
> <bic^> 'flagellum, whip'.).
>
> Konushevci
>

If bishtaj& is the same word with p&staie that is almost sure very
probable that *p is original here.

I still couldn't find what could vocalize p in Albanian, because we
have examples like PAlb *pi:zda: > Alb pidh (Romanian pizda Slavic
pizda) where p is preserved in Albanian

Marius