Re: [tied] Automn and lamb

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

> *ster-5 `barren'. 1. Alb. shtjerrë `lamb' with prefixed variants
> mështjerrë/mëshqerrë from *ster-neH2: 2. shterpe `sterile female',
> abstract noun shterpëri `infertility', synonymic with shterr-ni `id.'
> from *sto:rbh-o: Latin sterilis: NIce stirtla `barren cow', Bulg
> sterica `barren cow', Grk steira `id.', steriphos `barren': Arm ster
> `barren', Skt sta'ri:- `barren cow', Toch B śari `kid'. (Pokorny 6.
> ster- 1031.)

It's possible that the PIE form * steribhuxwos 'being barren, barren
being' > Greek and Albanian (see
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/48213 ). Though I
don't know how unstressed e before i would behave or what order the
rules of V-deletion, etc., would need to occur in Albanian, I'd prefer
* steribhuxwos > * steribwas > *sterpwas or something similar rather
than * sto:rbh- with no other evidence than Alb e.