From: alexandru_mg3
Message: 44378
Date: 2006-04-22
>language@>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@>
> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-
> > wrote:was
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- 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
> > > <snip>
> > >
>
> >
> > If Albanian word 'karpã' means 'rock' and the Mountain Names
> > *Karpa:tya (currently /KarpaTi/) => guess what is the mneaningof
> > Karpathians Mountains?(Oxford
>
> Albanian meaning of <karpë> is "rocky hill with sharp peak"
> Albanian-English Dictionary, pp. 373.), plural <karpat>, probablya) -yo yes, <<X-yo>> has the the meaning 'having X'
> further extended in abstract suffix -ia (cf. Dalm-at-ia).
> >
> > 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
>