Re: The name of the name

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<miguelc@...> wrote:

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> Now such a paradigm would not only explain OIr. anm(a)e, it
> would also answer question (2). The zero-grade NA singular
> root forms come from this "collective", even if (outside of
> Germanic) the suffix/ending of the NA sg. itself has usually
> reverted to *-mn., from the "normal" amphidynamic paradigm
> (Grk. onoma, probably OIr. ainm --if from *n.mn., but could
> also be *n.men--), or oblique *-men- has been generalized
> (maybe OIr., OCS imeN, perhaps Alb. imën ~ imër --or is that
> from *-mn.?--).
>
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> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> miguelc@...

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Alb Gheg emen, Tosk emër'name', according to Beekes, is derived from
*H1nH3men, after the second laryngeal became zero. This will agree
with Grk Enuma-; other forms seem to point to *H3nH3- (CIEL, pp.
268.).
I think that -nm- > -mm- > -m- is regular in PAlb.