Re: [tied] Piotr and the Dacians:-)

I have encountered one (nëpërkë) as a child on the hills of Durrës,
near the coast, central Albania.
It is the most fearsome kind of snake in the country.

Alvin

--- In cybalist@..., alexmoeller@... wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> To: <cybalist@...>
> Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Piotr and the Dacians:-)
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> Talking of vipers, the Albanian word for one is <nëpërkë>, so
> we are dealing either with a loan or a real substrate item
> with Albanian connections. Does anyone know anything about
> this word?
>
> Piotr
>
> [Moeller]
> an indeed bloody question from my side now. Are vipers to find
> in actualy theritory of Albanian? And if so which of them? The
> normal one or the horned one?
> The second queston is how is the plural form of "ne:pe:rke:"
> in albanian ? In romanian is sg "nãpârcã" and plural is
> "nãpârci" with definite article "nãpârca" and "nãpârcile".