--- In balkanika@yahoogroups.com, "Alvin Ekmekciu" <Ekmekciu@...> wrote:
>
> According to Pokorny PIE *snew- gave Albanian <nus> `Bindfaden,
> Schnur' as the Greek <neuro-> and Latin <nervus>.
>
> Such a word can not be found in any Albanian dictionary and neither
> had Abdullah mentioned it in his Albanian Inherited Dictionary.
> Is this word lost or should we be looking for another form of it ?
>
> In apparence the word is similar to Albanian <nuse> 'bride'. But is
> there any connection between them ?
>
> Alvin
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Alb nus-kë 'triangular shaped talisman' probably from *snu-t-yo-ko, in
close relation to Alb nyç, nyell, nyjë, that I think I have treated in
my dictionary as inherited words of Albanian lexicon. By all means
primary meaning was 'twine, band, lace, string, pack-thread'. With
this meaning this word was found in S. Marzano in Apulia by Meyer and
also could be found in "Fjalori i Bashkimit".

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