From: tgpedersen
Message: 50535
Date: 2007-11-20
>Suppose instead Illyrian had prenasalised stops Nb, Nd, Ng etc which
> Andetrion, Dalmatia (Strabo).
> Anausaro, road station (TP Miller IR col. 571-573. Rav. IV 15).
> Andarva/Anderba, road station Miller IR col. 462-471. IA Cuntz 338,
> 7. Rav. IV 16).
> Andizetes, Panonian tribe (Strab. VII 314. Ptol. II 15,2)
> Andautonion (Ptol. II, 14,4), city in Panonia.
> Bulentum/Bolentum, if identical with Bulet close to Dubrovnik and if
> from Alb appellative bulim `spring' (Jokl, Skok), I think that
> testifies for its high frequency in many place names with it
> prefixed form: Ombula/Jambula, Ubla/Obla, Bul-ofçe/Bolec in Dardania
> etc. Forms Ombula/Jambula are from prefixed form *H1en + bul- with
> characteristic assimilation nb- > -mb-, later reduced on b-/-m-.
> From last example we could suppose that place names Andetrion,
> Anausaro, Andizetes, Andarva, Andautonion are indeed prefixed forms
> of detrion, -ausaro, -dizetes, -darva, because H1en is treated in
> PAlb. as ân in Gheg dialect and ën in Tosk one.
> So except aus- and ar- as a first element on many Illyrian place
> names, exists also as prefix an- attested in many other place names.