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Hi Abdullah, is Alb. "zor" considered to be a loan from Slavic? Alex...
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... ************ The word <zor> is a Persian one, entered in Balkan languages via Turkish. It's meaning is "power, obligation, difficulty, etc.". It seems, due...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... I forgot to mention regular change of Persian /u/ > Turkish /o/, like in <dust> 'friend' > Turk. <dost>, so Persian word is <zur> that yields Turkish...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... Thank you for the explanation Abdullah. Alex...
alex
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Root / lemma: la:>gh- English meaning: to cut, a 0000">cutting instrument German meaning: `schneiden, schneidendes Gera"t (Spaten, Klinge)' Material: Gr....
Abdullah Konushevci
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... last year on cybalist I said the only root which fits to "daltć", "daltė" should be the Latin verb "talio" due the same initial root *tal- Now you say...
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Abdullah, from what I could see there is a suffix in Rom. and this is "easa" ( < esa) which is used form making feminine nouns ( better sai, denominations for...
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... `Spaten' ... 152. ... into ... suffixed ... indeed ... to "daltć", "daltė" ... talto > dalto ... or ... from "dėlir" ... d-t in ... ************ Look,...
Abdullah Konushevci
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793
... nouns ( ... remembered ... (the wife ... other paars ... I cannot ... discusse this ... this is ... to ... ************ Suffix -esha is very productive in...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... that is that. That is the suffix I mean. Now some explanation. The suffix does not mean "wife of" but is just the feminine form for denominations which are...
alex
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Hello everybody! Zdrave indeed! I see that Alex here is quite a Dacophile, interested in anything that might indicate a trace of the once glorious Dacian...
Ben McGarr
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in teh lexical data I have, Alb. "mė" is not considered as being a loan from Latin "magis". The adv. "mė" means "more" and it is used (u.o.) for making the...
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... loan from ... for making ... of ... origins(Rom. ... " for ... Alb. "mjeshtėr" means ... adjectiv. ... word "meshter" too ... is a ... works you ... ...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... The PAlb "maj" is in fact the actuly form of Rom. word since Rom has "mai" and in both languages this part is an adverb means "more" and is used for making...
alex
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... Latin ... view, ... like ... has "mai" ... comparative ... don't know ... Latin "suma". In ... mai ... remains ... of "s", thus the ... the word ... ...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... to ... and dissapeared? because there is no trace of "n" in Geg "mā" . what about "ar" in Geg? Does it becomes "ār" in some situatiosn? For instnace Rom....
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... To be honest I just think at the idea of "mare" which ... ************ When I wrote in Cybalist about aberrant outcome *g'h > d, due to sandhi in Albanian,...
Abdullah Konushevci
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Alb. "o" as conjunction means in English "or" .For the english "either" .. "or".... there is just the same word thus "o"..."o"... the same thing is to find in...
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is in Albanian "cingonė"; the word in Rom. is "cimpoi" The rom. word is unexplained, has un unnown etymology. The Alb. and Rom. words appears very appropiate...
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... derivation ... is the ... ************ If we take a look in Alb. <kumbonė/kėmborė> 'bell' I think, according to Jokl, that Alb. suffix -ona is derived...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... english "either" .. ... conjunction "or" there ... english "either"... ... is no ... never heard ... or ... very often in ... Phoneticaly, ... ************...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... From all you say I understnad that here we have just a coinceidentaly appropiate form between Alb. cingonė and rom "cimpoi" From your comment I find...
alex
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... IE "s" > Alb. "s"? unlikely Assuming that is true, then: a)-Rom. "ori" has nothing to do with Alb. "o" b)-there will be a trace of IE "s" > "r" as in...
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... indeed ... Celtic ... ************ No, Alb. /s/ in _ose_ 'or' and _as_ 'nor', _mos_ 'don't'< *me:kWe (see Demiraj, AE, 275; Pokoeny 703) and /s/=/nuk/, as...
Abdullah Konushevci
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... your ... You can still get to the latest version (unchanged since March) via http://homepage.ntlworld.com/richard.wordingham/sounds/index.htm . The result...
Richard Wordingham
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... because "earth" is a kind of pigment; I don'T see why semanticaly pavimentum should be better as pigmentum for Rom. "pćmānt" Alex...
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... of "s", thus the ... the word ... explained by Roth ... And where, pray, does "*eo" come from? Does not 'Vlat' _eo_ come from Latin _ego_? _Magis_ 'more'...
Richard Wordingham
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... it entered the language with the form "*eo" for "magis" how I said, I have problems in seing being it kept in "deget", "faget", and a lot other examples...
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... too ... rise ... Highly unlikely! The guttural has been quite vulnerable to loss in its various forms - Romance *eo (or whatever), English _I_ (cf. Old ...
Richard Wordingham
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... Very interesting... Just a small change to be made: "l" between an "o/u" and an "i" disappears. examples: folium -> foi (instead of foli) coleus -> coi...
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