*pa:- `to protect, feed, graze'. Oldest form *peH2-, colored to
*paH2-, contracted to *pa-.
I. Zero-grade form *pH2-. 1a. <mbaj/maj> `to hold, have, breed' from
*H1en-pH2-n-yo; b. adjective <i/e mbajtur/mbajtun> `well-fed'; c.
Prefixed form <për-mbaj> `to support, include, sustain, hold
back/in'; d. Nomina agentis <mbajt-ës/-ëse> `housekeeper'. 2.
Adjective <i bëshëm> `productive, fertile (of land); robust, plump,
full-bodied' from *pH2-shëm, the latter characteristic Albanian
adjectival suffix with voicing of bilabial stop /p/. 3. <bësht-
inë> `flock of sheep or goats without the shepherd' (cf. Armenian
huran `flock'). 4. <pashtrak> `tax on graze' from extended and
suffixed form *pH2s-ter-ak. 5. <barí> `shepherd' as collective noun
from *pH2-ria, <bareshë> `shepherdess' (cf. Latin pastor `id.',
Armenian hoviv `id.') and <bari> `grass, herbage' with stress in
first syllable from *pH2-ru. It must be not confused with
<bari> `drug, medicine'.
This voicing of bilabial stop seems to belong to different
chronological layer.
II. O-grade form *po:-. 1. Alb. <petë> `rolled out dough, flat/thin
layer of dough; layer of pastry crust; dish prepared with thin
layers of dough: pasty' from suffixed extended form *po:t-eH2. 2.
Diminutive form <petull> `pancake'. 3. <rras-a-petë> from
<rrasë> `flat rock' and <petë> with copulative a- from *-o-. 4.
Umlauted form <pite> `Johnny-cake, mill-cake', probably entered in
Ottoman language and later spread in all Balkan languages with
enormous derivatives like: kol-pite `round pie', sham-pite `Persian
pie', süt-pite `milk pie' where first element of a compound is
Ottoman and second Albanian. 5. Diminutive extended form <pit-al-
kë> `bread like panine'. 6. By all chances here takes part also
Alb. <bukë> `bread' from extended form *pouk-eH2 with regular
diphthongized *a: or *e: or *o: in *ou> /u/ followed by velars or
voiced dental (cf. Lat. panis). (Pokorny pa:- 839.)
Any help about voicing of bilabial stop and diphthongized *o > PAlb
*ou > u. Did first characteristic seems to be shared with Indo-
Iranian Languages and second with Greek?
Konushevci