Re: Automn and lamb

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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.

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I doubt also on *sto:rbh-, for long *o: would underwent diphthongation
to ou> uo > ua/ue. But, I would much more prefer an o-grade form
*storibhuxwos and it will then be easy to explain Albanian form due to
i-Umlaut: *storibhuxwos > EPAlb *staribu:wos> PAlb *starbio, where we
have a >e Umlaut due to -i- > -y- and *-io-/-oi- >e.

Konushevci