Re: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"

Well, as I pointed out a while ago, *dolto < *dolbto is related to *delbti and *dolbati 'carve out, chisel' -- Slavic verbs unambiguously reconstructible on the basis of their modern reflexes.

Why do you assume that all those eminent linguists whose names you list would agree with your analysis? Watkins is guilty of trying to connect Gmc. *dailjan- with PIE *dah2- in a very risky way, but are you privy to his opinion about Alb. daltë? Hamp possibly discusses the word somewhere, but I haven't been able to come up with a reference; can you? As for Cimochowski, I've just consulted an article by him on Slavic-Albanian relations. According to Cimochowski, <daltë> is a loan from Slavic. ;-)

Piotr

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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
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Subject: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"



Now let's contemplate these correspondences:
>
> Slavic *bolto 'mud, swamp, sludge, pool', *dolto 'chisel'
> Romanian baltã 'swamp, pool', daltã 'chisel'
> Albanian baltë 'mud, ooze, sludge', daltë 'chisel'
>
> Is this coincidence?
>
> Piotr
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No, in any case. But, until Alb. daltë 'chisel' is related to
gdhend 'to carve, to rough-polish', to gdhe 'knot, garl', I don't
know Slavic dlata to which words is related. Also I think about Alb.
baltë and Slavic blato.
The best think should be Yout to follow the road of famous Slavic
linguists as Seliscev and others, until I am pleased, I am very much
pleased, with such unknown linguists as Cimohowski, Watkins, Hamp,
Çabej and others.
Thanks God, we all have the freedom of choice.