[tied] Re: some terms for George

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 16-06-03 23:25, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> > Alex said that Devil was "dreq" in Albanian. I checked, of

course, and

> > indeed at

http://www.foreignword.com/dictionary/Albanian/default.htm

> > the word is given as dreq, dreqi "diablo".
> >
> > Now you're telling me it's a plural. I'm confused. Isn't "the

devil"

> > singular? Shouldn't the plural definite form be *dreqtë?
>
> <dreq> is one of the umlauted singularised plurals in Albanian,

like

> <gjel> 'cock', <enë> 'vessel', etc. It's singular but presupposes
> earlier *drak, pl. *dreq < *drak-i (is it actually attested,

Abdullah?).

> Isn't this *-i identical with analogically generalised Latin -i:
> (possibly confused with inherited collectives in *-ijo-/*-ijah2)?
>
> Piotr

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Attested forms, according to Çabej's, are: dreck (1497, A.V.
Harffi), i dreqit (Buzuku), Dregji (Bardhi). It is singularized
plural.
Yes, it is possibly confused with inherited collectives in *-ijo/*-
ijah2.
Yes, they find identical this *-i, from Miklosich to Skok, with
analogically generalised Latin -i.

Konushevci