From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 26865
Date: 2003-11-04
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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 6:18 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Albanian Names
> if Alb. shouldn't be a living language and we shouldnt't know what means
> "bardh�" in Alb., we should eassy be tempted to try to link Alb.
> "bardh�" to IE *bhardha- which should be simply wrong.
That's precisely why bare similarities (like that between <Bardu:lis> and
<bardh�>) have little value in etymology. The vast majority of them are
accidental.
Piotr