Re: Hamp on Alb.

> I agree about <bah->, which makes me think that the word is not
> inherited from PIE but borrowed from some Balkan adstrate, similar to
> Ancient Macedonian, at a time when -sk- in *baska: < *bHask-ah2 could

no

> longer develop into /h/. The "doublet inversion" looks completely
> arbitrary to me.
>

...

> This *bHah2- proposal ignores the external connections, including the
> Greek/Macedonian and Aromanian words, all of which mean 'bundle'.
>

and the thing goes *pa(n)g- again
http://www.angelfire.com/rant/tgpedersen/HbHpHg.html
I suspect the adstrate on Piotr's mind would be the language of the
LBK culture. It would fit the description as the first in Europe to
develop "coppice economy", which is where the semantics of this set
of allofams takes us.


Torsten