Open AccessAlbanica Parerga
Author(s) -
Vladimir Orël
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
linguistica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.134
H-Index - 1
eISSN - 2350-420X
pISSN - 0024-3922
DOI - 10.4312/linguistica.26.1.171-176
Subject(s) - term (time) , philosophy , germanic languages , history , linguistics , physics , german , astronomy
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.