Re: Perfect, Latin 1st conj, Tocharian pret. I

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "P&G" <G.and.P@...> wrote:

>
> >> (b) the contraction involved is so understandable, and so well
> >> attested in other words,
> >What other words?
>
> For example divites > dites (nom pl) and see below.
>
> >> (e.g. the preference
> >> for loss of -v- between similar vowels)
> >Similar? ama:sti: ama:stis [< amavisti, amavistis]
>
> I said "preference". That doesn't mean it doesn't happen

elsewhere.

> Intervocalic -v- is lost most easily in the context -ivi- (e.g.

ditis,

> dites, as above, or the very widespread perfect ii for ivi, or

aetas <

> *aivitat- related to aevum); also in the contexts -eve- e.g.

delerunt <

> deleverunt, and -ava- e.g. lavatrina > latrina.
>
> >**ama:runt
> amarunt, and similar forms, do exist
> >ama:mus
> This form (= amavimus) does not exist. amamus can only be present.
>
> It may be the case that the 3rd person plural in -r- is a survivor

(I seem

> to remember having read that somewhere) but the rest are less

likely to be

> so. There will also be a lot of influence within paradigms, and

from one

> declension to another.
>
> >And BTW, personally I doubt everything. It's a bad habit with me.
>
> Quite right. So you/we should. I'm in favour of bad habits.
>
> Peter

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Differently from Latin, treatment of group of sounds -e:w-, -uwo-,
iwa- seems to have yielded regularly in Albanian front vowel /y/:

1. *duwo > dy `two',
2. *drew-nu > dryni/dryri `padlock, lock',
3. *gWri-wa:-keH2 > PAlb griwaka: > Alb grykë `neckband, throat,
gully, gorge', cf. Sl griva `mane',
4. *sne:w-n-yeH2 > Alb nyjë `knot, hub, knurl';
5. *g'hre:w-t-yo > Alb ngrys `to darken', cf. Germanic *grisja-
`gray';
6. *sew-n-yo > Alb ngjyj `to wet, dip, soak, color'.
7. *leu-mo > Alb lym `loess, silt, ooze, slob'
8. H1ewn-yo > Alb hyjn `to enter' and
9. klawid-s > Alb kyç `key, joint', Lat clavis, Sl kljuc^ etc.

This sound-law is present in Latin loan qytet `city' < civitatem.

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