Definition & Meaning | English word PROTO-ALBANIAN

Definitions of PROTO-ALBANIAN

1. The hypothetical proto-language that is the progenitor of modern day Albanian.

Examples of Using PROTO-ALBANIAN in a Sentence

• Niš evolved from the toponym attested in Ancient Greek as ΝΑΙΣΣΟΣ (Naissos) achieving its present form via phonetic changes in Proto-Albanian and thereafter the placename entered Slavic.
• According to Hamp and Hyllested, Drobeta reflects a Roman misinterpretation of *Druwā-tā (the wooden place) with a postposed article, reflecting a proto-Albanian syntax for wood druwa-tai.
• The Albanian phrase afro dita 'come forth the day/dawn' traces back to Proto-Albanian *apro dītā 'come forth brightness of the day/dawn', from Indo-European *h₂epero déh₂itis.
• Proto-Albanian is reconstructed by way of the comparative method between the Tosk and Gheg dialects and between Albanian and other Indo-European languages, as well as through contact linguistics studying early loanwords from and into Albanian and structural and phonological convergences with other languages.
• In this case, along with Romanian zână, Albanian zana may be related to Proto-Indo-European Dyeus ('bright, sky, deity'), all ultimately deriving from *dyeu 'sky', similarly to the Albanian sky and lighning god Zoj-z, and its possible epithet Zot "Sky Father" from Proto-Albanian *dźie̅u ̊ a(t)t-, ultimately from PIE *Dyḗus ph₂tḗr.
• The early isolated Malsia Albanian has preserved archaic features of Proto-Albanian and Proto-Indo-European in comparison to other Gheg varieties and to Tosk, such as the word-initial voiceless and voiced stops.

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