Albanica Parerga

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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Main Author: Vladimir E. Orel
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts) 1986-12-01
Series:Linguistica
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Albanica Parerga
Online Access:https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4666
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spelling doaj-424b76ace8cc44239140175ee17c8b7c2020-11-24T21:39:02ZdeuZnanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)Linguistica0024-39222350-420X1986-12-01261Albanica ParergaVladimir E. Orel 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. https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4666Albanica Parerga
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Albanica Parerga
author_facet Vladimir E. Orel
author_sort Vladimir E. Orel
title Albanica Parerga
title_short Albanica Parerga
title_full Albanica Parerga
title_fullStr Albanica Parerga
title_full_unstemmed Albanica Parerga
title_sort albanica parerga
publisher Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts)
series Linguistica
issn 0024-3922
2350-420X
publishDate 1986-12-01
description 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.
topic Albanica Parerga
url https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4666
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