Re: [tied] alb. gji (breast)

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>> Accepting the lost of "s" is usual for Italian and Romanian,
>> accepting the lost of "n" is not at all usual. But let us accept it
>
> You'd _better_ accept it. Cf. nume, Lat. no:men

hehe, that is fine. If the accusativ doesnt match we take then the
nominative.
Some posts before Miguel answered to me that it is true, in Romance the
accusative form of Latin are inherited not the nominative forms.
The accusative form forn nomen is nominis:-)

> The root is indeed Indo-European *serp- 'creep, crawl', which doesn't
> mean that the Romanian word comes from PIE _bypassing_ Latin
>
> Piotr

Should it be too difficult to bypass Latin?:-))
Don't you find curious that just the noun snake is inherited but no
another word like: serpenti-gena, serpenti-pes, serpirastra, serpo,
serpullum ?
Just the Latin noun is not enough I guess for a parental relation,
specialy when the PIE root has the same requested form *serp-.

Alex