Re: [tied] "One" in Albanian [Was: some terms for George]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "altamix" wrote:

> In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Darie <elixir032000@...> wrote:
>> The Indo-Iranian word dusman is in Urdu, Nepali, Kashmiri, Dari
>> spoken in Afganistan, Farsi spoken in Iran, Romanian and Albanian
>> languages. The Thracians, Cimmerians, Scythians and Sarmatians are
>> considered of Iranian origin.

[...]

> In fact none wondered about dushman being so spread in Balcan and
> everyone considered it turkish because of the otoman empire in
> Balkan.

... and mainly because it's /duSman/ in Uzbek, Turkmen, Tatar,
Azeri, Kazakh.

> That albanians, serbians, bulgarians, aromanians, dacoromanians,
> all of them take a such word from the turkish, it seems very
> unlike but not excluded at all.

It's all on the contrary, very likely. The oxytone stress hints
out its' origin.

Marius Iacomi