Re: [tied] fear ( it was hades)

From: alex_lycos
Message: 20816
Date: 2003-04-06

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>> Ias the albanian word "frikë" too considered to be a loan from
> Greek
>> "phrike" as the Romanian "fricã"= fear ?
> ************
> From Mikloschi to Hamp, Alb. word prift 'priest' was seen as
> borrowed from Lat. presbyter > prift 'priest'
> Yes, in new-Greek we have he phrice 'fear', util in old one ho
> phobos
>
> Konushevci


Strange. I ask myself how should be borrowed such a word like "fear".
Let see about the english "fear" which in OE have had a form like
'fyhrto'. Should they be cognates? I mean the greek one and the english
one?