--- In balkanika@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> --- In balkanika@yahoogroups.com, "Alvin Ekmekciu" <Ekmekciu@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > It. sfila 'slip' > Alb. sfilit 'cause suffering, torture, harass'
> >
> > Is this right ?
> >
> > Alvin
> ************
> Alb verb sfilis 'to make suffer, inflict pain: torment, torture'
> seems to be prefixal derivative of bound morpheme -filis (s- as
> intensive prefix, like in s-kuq, z-bardh etc.) from *speil-i-t-yo of
> PIE root *splei- 'to splice, split', where is as well the origin of
> Alb fli 'sacrifice', synonymic with theror 'sacrificial animal,
> person sacrificed' etc. It has entered South-Slavic languages as
> cvelati, cvilim, cviliti, (kajkavski) kviliti, especially about the
> swine that is sacrificed (Skok, ERHSJ, p. 283), so it has nothing to
> do with onomatopoeic syllable cvi-. I am aware too that you will
> ignore this explanation, as you have ignored more others, but, it
> dosn't matter. You are welcome as you are.
>
> Konushevci

I am not ignoring anything. Though I'm not taking part in discussions,
I am following them.

Alvin