Re: starling

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

>
> *storo- `stalring'. Alb shturë `red-coloured starling; starling
> (Sturnus vulgaris L.)' from *str.H1r-eH2: NE starling: OHG star(a)
> from Germanic *staraz: Lat sturnus `id.': Old Prusian stranite `gull,
> seagull': Russian strentka `yellowhammer'. Seems that perform was
> *storH1o-, because *r.H1 > Alb –ur (cf. *gWhr.H1-u > Alb gur `stone'
> (Watkins). (Pokorny storos 1036.)
>
> Konushevci
>

1. The quality of the laryngeal in *gWhr.H-i is considered Unknown at
least by Lubotsky :) => see Leiden, Indo-Aryan Etymological Dictionary
Based on what you wrote h1? What are the arguments?

NOTE also: that we have an i-stem here, not an u-stem


2. NExt we have : PIE *r.h1 > PAlb/Dacian? ar
as in Romanian barza & Alb. bardh& (see Piotr's message on this forum
related to the quality of the laryngeal in Albanian bardh&, with a very
good argumentation)

So once again : if rh1 > ar WE CANNOT have rh1 > ur (SAME CONTEXT -
SAME RULE)


Marius