[tied] Re: about the wrong roots

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

> 07-07-03 18:37, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
> > On Mon, 07 Jul 2003 14:41:12 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
> > <a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>
> >>Cf. also Albanian <qarr> 'oak' < *kWerkW-, probably from a

variant

> >>form *kiorkW- or maybe Piotr would have better explanation.
> >
> > I doubt this derives from PIE *perkWus, unless by way of Latin

quercus,

> > quern(e)us.
>
> Latin <quernus> (a substantivised adjective) fits like a glove.
> Inherited *kWerkW- wouldn't work at all.
>
> Piotr

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It seems that you agree that Alb. <qarr> 'oak' is derived form Lat.
quernus (a substantivised adjective), even that you are aware of
assimilation in distance of labiovelars in Italo-Celtic and
Illyrian/Albanian.
I didn't except nothing better.

Konushevci