The Indo-European Semivowels in Albanian

IE pure N-grades of the ḷ and ṛ types yield Alb. ul/lu and ur/ru, except where ə appears to have been inserted (perhaps because the form in the N-grade was difficult to pronounce). The extended grades arising in this way fall together with original R-grades, which on becoming stressed or restressed...

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Published in:Language (Baltimore) 1941-01, Vol.17 (1), p.12-23, Article 12
Main Author: Mann, Stuart E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Albs
Lexical stress
Loan words
Mind
Sentence stress
Spoons
Syllables
Verbs
Vowels
Words
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Summary:IE pure N-grades of the ḷ and ṛ types yield Alb. ul/lu and ur/ru, except where ə appears to have been inserted (perhaps because the form in the N-grade was difficult to pronounce). The extended grades arising in this way fall together with original R-grades, which on becoming stressed or restressed yield Albanian combinations with the vowel a. IE N-grades of the ṃ and ṇ types are indistinguishable from extended grades and R-grades; they yield âm and ân in the Geg dialect, ëm and ën in Tosk. The article presents the evidence for these developments in a large number of etymologies, many of them new.
ISSN:0097-8507
1535-0665
DOI:10.2307/409456