Re[2]: [tied] Re: Albanian "vatër"

At 3:06:43 PM on Wednesday, June 4, 2003, Piotr Gasiorowski
wrote:

>> More, I should like to ask Miguel if "veteranus" has
>> "children" in Western Romance ?

> The distribution of the word is of course pan-Romance (cf.
> Fr. vétéran),

Well, yes, but isn't <vétéran> a 16th c. learned borrowing?
(Not that I'm disagreeing with the main point, of course.)

> and Lat. vetus, veter- (*wetes-) belongs to a very well
> documented Indo-European etymon.

Brian