From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal Message: 6492 Date: 2001-03-09
On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:51:16 -0000, a96_aeu@... wrote:
>- Could Albanian <fshat> (village) have derived from the same
>*<woik^os>, <vi:cus> ?
No. As mentioned, *wik^- gives Alb. z-. *woik^- would have given
*veth- in mod. Alb. I don't have an Albanian etymological dictionary,
but my guess would be that <fshat> is a word borrowed from Latin
(fossatum ?).
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