Indo‑European ‘ego’, Slavic ja = Runic ek, and Celtic Ø

The paper gives a new account of the development of the first person singular pronoun in Indo-European languages, finding innovating areals (1) Anatolian *VK; (2) South-East Indo-European (Indo-Iranian, Armenian) *eg’‑H‑ém; (3) Greek, Latin, Venetic *eg’‑(ó)H; (4) North I-E (Albanian, Baltic, Slavic, Germanic, Thracian, Tocharian) *eg’

Resian Pëňt’/Pëgnt’ ‘Stone, Cliff’

Etymology of Resian dialect (Slovene) Pëňt’/Pëgnt’ ‘Stone, Cliff’

Slavic *mokrъ, Irish ainmech ‘wet, rain’

Avtor prikazuje etimološke povezave med baltščino, slovanščino, albanščino in keltščino za pojem ‘moker, dež’, ki se kažejo v rekonstrukciji praindoevropskega korena *mek- (~ *mok-). The author demonstrates the etymological connections among Baltic, Slavic, Albanian, and Celtic for the term ‘wet’, reflected in PIE *mek- (~ *mok-)

Giovanni Frau, Dizionario toponomastico del Friuli-Venezia Giulia. Udine, Istituto per L'Enciclopedia del Friuli-Venezia Giulia, 1978. Pp. 130.

This first integral collection of the place names of this complex and interesting region is avowedly intended as a work for general interest - as such it does not claim to be exhaustive and has not been delayed until all Flurnamen could be collec­ ted; but in fact Frau has given us a thoroughly scholarly work. A highly informative introduction (5-24), adorned with seven reproductions of older maps and plans, is followed by the dictionary proper. The front matter includes maps (showing comu­ ni) of the four provincie of the region, an excellent concise bibliography of 26 items, a useful brief glossary of technical terms, and some welcome remarks on the contri­ bution of toponomastics as a discipline

Three brief studies: slovene and albanian

Bernard Comrie, in his contribution  on the  Slavic languages to the volume edit­ ed by J. Gvozdanović (p. 766), reports a fact of particular historical interest. In pre­ senting the forms and behavior of the 'teens amongst the numerals' Comrie states that two accentual patterns apply, an oxytone and a recessive, i.e. -nájst and ÚNIT­ najst. However, he points out that exceptionally in the case of '1l' only enájst the oxy­ tone occurs