[tied] Re: slavic "dalto"

Gdhend is related to dalta. Indeed, it's an prefixal form *ga-
(prefix) +*da- (root 'to separate, to devide') + -suffix -ent.
With dalta 'chisel' we polish or separate the unuseful parts of the
wood (cf. another Alb. word gdhe, pl. gdhenj 'gnarl, knot').
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Konushevci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:10 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"
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> > I agree that Alb. dalta 'chisel' and probabley Rom. too can't be
> Slavic loans. As first, it's in Albanian very old denominal

gdhend 'to rough-polish, to carve' (cf. ditë 'day' and gdhij 'to
rise, to wake up').

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> What, precisely, does it have to do with <daltë>? I mean, hoe do

you propose to relate them?

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> > Rather we may talk in other direction: that Slavic dlato through

metathesis of liquids is a loan from Albanian or Romanian language.

>
> So, I suppose is OPr. dalptan ;-)?