> I should think Alexander's armies would have been more
likely to scatter Greek loans in their wake (not that
Macedonian was very different from Greek). Some of the Bangani
words are definitely non-Greek (e.g. kOtrO 'fight' and gOsti
'guest of honour').
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> Piotr
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[Moeller] kotro is fight? that is strange
In Romanian you have an word with unknown ethymology and this
one is "cotropi" meaning to invade.. gmm. Sure there are
derivats :