> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>> There is in Albanian phitonym <borsilok> 'ocymum basilicum' with a -
>> r-, but probably with recent origin, for we haven't common
>> change /s/ > /sh/.
The word is in Romanian "busuioc" and is given by DEX as a loan from
South Slavic "bosilek"(Bulgarian) or "bosiljak" ( SerbCrt.)
both of them does not fit since there is /u/ and /o/ for Slavic /o/ and
/e/or/a/
Blg: bosilek
SrC: bosiljak
Alb: borsilok
Rom: busuioc
If Albanian has a recently "r" then it points to a form like *bosiloc.
Question: Abdullah , can we have in Albanian an /i/ from /u/? I think at
a protoform as *bosulok ?
Alex