--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> 2. Alb. <gjeth> `leaf, foliage' Umlauted form from *gathi from *g-
ozd-
> i: Arm <ost> `branch'.
1. Abdullah, *gwos-do- is quite well attested:
OHG questa `bunch of leaves';
OSr. gvozd `forest'
So:
a) there is no need of *g + (at the PIE level) => remember the
discussion here => there were no PIE prefixes.
or
b) to consider *g+ a later (PAlb) formation when we have the above
cognates
2. Next, Abdullah, the rule is:
PIE *sd/*zd > PAlb *zd > PAlb *dz > Alb dh
Example:
PIE *p(e)is-d- > Alb pidh (Romanian pizda, Slavic pizda) 'pudenda'
So to explain the th in Alb gjeth we need to reconstruct PIE *gwos-d-
C- with an additional C and that additional C could be k^ (C = k^ =>
*gwos-d-k^-o) in order 'to can have' a PAlb/Dacian? ts /c/ ((early)
PAlb/Dacian? *gwazd-tsa with the accent on the last syll.) > that
arrived next Alb th in Alb gath (gjeth, gjethe etc...)
The suffix -k^- is used in many Albanian & Romanian Substratum
constructions (see Romanian hoT /hoc/ > Dacian *wed-ts-'a etc...for
a similar construction)
Notes also the order of the timeframes too:
1-2. C1C2 > C2 ; c > th (difficult to say who is 1 here, but I
suspect the first one)
3. wa > a
4. ga/umlaut > gje
Marius