[tied] Re: morsha

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:

> > Compare, in particular, the Albanian words for 'sturgeon', Tosk
> bli,
> > bliri, Geg blî, blini < *bHl.no- (cf. Gmc. *Bulla(-n)- 'bull'),
> which
> > throws light on the structure of Gk. pHálle:, pHál(l)aina, as well
> as
> > pHállos (all from *bHl.-n..).

> So Romanian balaur, Piotr, would be from *bHl-n.-wo-wr-o > Dacian
> *balwaura > *ballaura > Romanian balaur, in this case ....

If it is related, I'd say it's from the masculine *bhl,Lon.+ ( >
*bullan+, etc., in Germanic). The l,L is necessary in blini to
prevent l, > al before C+sonorant in the next syl., then it drops
between C_C and l,>li as in most environments. In balaur L>w after l
(as it does in certain positions in PIE and then metathesis).

bhl,-Lon.+ ... bhl,L-n.ix
bhal-Lon.+ ... bhl,L-n.ix
bhal-Lon.+ ... bhl,-n.ix
bhal-Lon.+ ... bhli-n.ix
bhal-won.+ ... bhli-n.ix
bhal-own.+ ... bhli-n.ix

etc.