--- Abdullah Konushevci <
akonushevci@...> wrote:
> *wogwh-ni `ploughshare'. 1. Alb umb `small plowshare
> on a wooden
> plow', Tosk and Standard Albanian form, umi as Gheg
> variant, from
> nasalized zero-grade form *ungwh-u, cf. for same
> Lat vo:mis:
> `ploughshare': OHG waganso `ploughshare', OPrus
> wagnis `coulter', Grk
> ophnis. (Pokorny wowing-s 1179.)
If these words are related, I think *ungwhus would
be
unnecessary. In Greek o>u between certain
combinations
of round (or sonorant) sounds. Albanian could have
had
KW>P between back and nasal (or something similar as
in
Greek *xukWn.ós > ipnós) then metathesis and final *i
>
u after CW / P (possibly as a lasting rule from PIE)
or
an even more complicated series we wouldn't have
enough
evidence for to even be able to think of.
wegWhnis ... kWekWlos
wogWhnis ... kWokWlos
wogWhnis ... kWukWlos
wogWhnis ... kuklos
wokWhnis ... kuklos
wophnis .... kuklos
ophnis ..... kuklos
wegWhnis
wogWhnis
wugWhnis
wubhnis
wumbhis
wumbhus
umbhus
etc.
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