[tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@>
> wrote:
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> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Abdullah Konushevci
> > Sent: Friday, April 21, 2006 4:44 PM
> > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels
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> If Albanian word 'karpã' means 'rock' and the Mountain Names was
> *Karpa:tya (currently /KarpaTi/) => guess what is the mneaning of
> Karpathians Mountains?

Albanian meaning of <karpë> is "rocky hill with sharp peak" (Oxford
Albanian-English Dictionary, pp. 373.), plural <karpat>, probably
further extended in abstract suffix -ia (cf. Dalm-at-ia).

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> But the point here was the meaning of suffix -tya: 'made by'
> (rocks, in the above case) that can be applied only to nouns not

to

> verbs...and the discussion was about kmesë...< *ak^-mo:n-tya:

I am not an expert on word-formation, but I know that -yo, mostly
attached to extended roots, is firstly verbal suffix and I found
that it behaves like suffix -o in verbs, adjectives, nouns.

> Marius

Konushevci