Re: [tied] Re: Hamp on Alb.

On 2006-07-07 14:49, tgpedersen wrote:

> Language is generally insuffiently expressive compared to a suitably
> powerful symbolic language (and bla-bla). I meant that the language
> you intended would have been LBK in the outside world, not in your
> mind (and said language might have left traces in Balkan languages,
> whichever they were). I know you have reserved LBK as the PIE ur-
> culture.

Leaving bla-bla on the side, the source of the Albanian word can't be
too old; otherwise the cluster *-sk- would have become -h- /x/ rather
than -shk-. LBK flourished ca. 5600-4500 BC -- that's way too early to
be of any relevance. The donor language was most likely the same from
which Greek took <baskios> and a couple of related terms. The root is
also well attested in Celtic (hence the Eng. loanword basket).

Piotr