Re: English breath and Alb fryj (*gWh- > h-)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

>
> Alb fryj `breathe, blow, wind', synonymic with ënjt `to cause to
> swell' (Gheg âj `id', âjë `swelling'< *anH- `to breathe'), to my
> view, should be from *gwhre:-n-yo with regular interchange h > f (cf.
> ftoh/ftof, njoh/njof, plah/plaf etc.). Alb frymë `breath, breathing;
> wind; spirit; soul' is a derivative of fryj.
> Konushevci
>

f for h is ONLY dialectal and ONLY in intervocalic positions

Intervocalic sk gave h in Tosk anf f in Gheg (and it gave also f in
Romanian-Subtratum)

Example T. rrah
G. rraf
Rom. r&fui

Marius