Re: [tied] Ukrainian words from Carpathians

From: alex_lycos
Message: 21957
Date: 2003-05-16

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Abdullah Konushevci
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Ukrainian words from Carpathians
>
>
> > As far as I remember, there are also place name Beskides and
> there are all chances to be explained only through Alb. appellative
> bjeshkë 'summer mountain pasture'
>
> Yes, several mountain ranges in southern Poland are called Beskid
> or (pl.) Beskidy (< *beskydU < **besku:do-, with loss of
> palatalisation that looks as if it were due to Czech/Slovak/Ukrainian
> influence). The word is genuinely old and the Albanian connection may
> be real. Like the name of the Carpathians 'the Rockies' (cf. Alb.
> karpë), which is well over 2000 years old, it may be a surviving
> substrate word
>
> Piotr


and how yould you connect with the meaning from Albanian ?
I was a bit thinking about this /y/ but as you gave the form with
**besku:do it looks something else. what does mean this word in Polish
at all? Does it mean anything or it is just a name whose meaning is lost
?
The Albanian semantism and Ukrainean one doesn't matches.