Albanica Parerga
It seems tempting to treat akull as a potential borrowing from Germanic, if one remembers of a specific Germanic term for icicle: *jakulaz/*jakilaz, cf.ON. jǫkull, OE. gicel, gicela, īses gicel 'icicle of ice'. Indeed, Germanic *jakulaz is strikingly close to aku/l, and the only difficult...
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Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
1986-12-01
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| Series: | Linguistica |
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| Online Access: | https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4666 |
| Summary: | It seems tempting to treat akull as a potential borrowing from Germanic, if one remembers of a specific Germanic term for icicle: *jakulaz/*jakilaz, cf.ON. jǫkull, OE. gicel, gicela, īses gicel 'icicle of ice'. Indeed, Germanic *jakulaz is strikingly close to aku/l, and the only difficulty is the inexplicable disappearance of the initial *j- in Albanian. Perhaps, it is due to sandhi shown by Cimochowski (1950) to be an important factor of phonetic development in Albanian.
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| ISSN: | 0024-3922 2350-420X |