Re: PS Emphatics

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

>
> On 2008-02-04 00:39, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Romanian a <-> Alb o from Slavic *strojI ????
> > Romanian s <-> Alb sh from Slavic *strojI ????
> >
> > I will say : Never, Piotr, Never...
>
> What I said did not refer to Alb. shtrojë, which means 'mattress',

not

> 'clothes', and derives from the verb <shtroj> 'lay, strew, prepare

(the

> bed)' -- for all I know, a derivative of *sterh3-, related to Lat.
> sterno: (even so, it isn't true that Slavic str- can't have been
> borrowed as Alb. shtr-; there are examples of precisely this kind

of

> substitution). I was talking of Rom. strai, which to my mind is an
> OBVIOUS Slavic loan, given the identity of meaning and the

similarity of

> form. In an old borrowing the substitution of /a/ for Slavic *o

(whose

> PSl. realisation was unrounded) would not be surprising at all.
>
> Piotr

Maybe it is related to BHS pro-stirati, sterati "outspread, spread
sheet"; hence BHS prostirka "mattress", "mat", "bedding"?

Halil