<kOtrO> is supposedly related to
Celtic *catu- and Germanic *xaþu- (OE heaþu) 'battle', with an *-r- extension
visible in German Hader 'quarrel', Balto-Slavic (OCS kotora 'fight', Lith.
kata~ryti 'beat') and Sanskrit (<s'atru-> 'enemy'). The Balto-Slavic words
may be Centum loans themselves, and the ultimate reconstruction would then be
*k^at-u- ~ *k^at-(o)r- (Pokorny's *k^at- 'fight, struggle). This works for the
Bangani substrate, but not for Romanian, since if you divide <cotropi> or
<cutropi> into <cotro-> and <-pi-> the latter cannot be
accounted for (as Miguel said, there's no such suffix). If one wants to
etymologise it, the most promising starting point is to analyse it as
<co-/cu-> (a familiar prefix) plus <-trop-> and then try to
explain the latter. If that doesn't work, there's little hope than anything else
will.
Piotr
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2002 10:55 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Bangani
1)Bangani "kOtro" has the same composition in your way to
see
it: co=sufix, tro=root
cotropiin romanian co=prefix,
tro=root, pi=?
2)what does speak against "tro" beeing a root and what
does
speak for "trop" beeing a root?
3)the rumanian word has an unknown
ethymology, could not be
linked to any latin word, or slavic or german or
hungarian or
turcic. They tried everyone who once was hunting in Balcans
,
but nothing found:-)