Re: illyrian lexicon or inventory

From: Marco Moretti
Message: 27166
Date: 2003-11-14

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Delphine Froli
<delphineseigneur@...> wrote:
> Hello,
> I am interested in Dacian and Illyrian. Does anybody
> know about an illyrian or dacian lexicon, or
> phonological inventory, if possible on the internet ?
> Delphine

Hello.
I found some useful data, extracted from a database in a site of
Leida University (http://iiasnt.leidenuniv.nl). It is an Etymological
Albanian dictionary. Surely Proto-Albanian was Illyrian or closely
Illyrian-related.

Proto-Albanian: arua:
Meaning: arable land, soil

Proto-Albanian: arua:
Meaning: nut

Proto-Albanian: aurana-
Meaning: grave, tomb
(Go. aurahjons 'tombs')

Proto-Albanian: a:tera:
Meaning: hearth, fire-place

Proto-Albanian: balia:
Meaning: blaze, white spot; badger

Proto-Albanian: balga:
Meaning: cow-, horse-dung

Proto-Albanian: bani-
Meaning: to do, make; appear, make one's appearance

Proto-Albanian: bara:
Meaning: burden, load; weight; pregnant

Proto-Albanian: bas´ka:
Meaning: fleece

Proto-Albanian: batha:
Meaning: broad bean

Proto-Albanian: baura-
Meaning: herb, plant; grass

Proto-Albanian: beri-
Meaning: to fall (down), lay (down); beat

Proto-Albanian: biba:
Meaning: chicken, pullet

Proto-Albanian: bradha-
Meaning: fir, spruce(-fir), beech

Proto-Albanian: bri:
Meaning: horn(s), antlers

Proto-Albanian: budz´ia:
Meaning: lip

Proto-Albanian: bura-
Meaning: man; husband

Proto-Albanian: de:ra:
Meaning: hand

Proto-Albanian: dradha-
Meaning: strawberry
(Lat. fra:gum)

Proto-Albanian: drika:
Meaning: lunch, meal; midday, noon

Proto-Albanian: dzerma-
Meaning: fire

Proto-Albanian: dze:rna:
Meaning: bowel, intestine(s)

Proto-Albanian: dzie:u-
Meaning: God

Proto-Albanian: gardha-
Meaning: hedge, fence

Proto-Albanian: ka:la:
Meaning: cough

Proto-Albanian: karpa:
Meaning: rock, crag

Proto-Albanian: krapa- / krapi-
Meaning: rock, crag, sandstone

Proto-Albanian: krimi-
Meaning: worm, maggot, catterpiller

Proto-Albanian: katuar
Meaning: four

Proto-Albanian: kau-
Meaning: ox (for community services)

Proto-Albanian: ke:ua:
Meaning: time; span; weather; epoch

Proto-Albanian: kne:ma-
Meaning: soft, tender, fresh

Proto-Albanian: laga-
Meaning: troop, band

Proto-Albanian: lapta:
Meaning: kind of hatchet, axe, chopper

Proto-Albanian: la:pa:
Meaning: cow

Proto-Albanian: leura:
Meaning: rock-slip, boulder

Proto-Albanian: luga:
Meaning: trough, water-channel, spillway

Proto-Albanian: malla-
Meaning: mountain, rock-formation, mountain-wood

Proto-Albanian: magu-
Meaning: hinnulus

Proto-Albanian: melita-
Meaning: honey

Proto-Albanian: mlita:
Meaning: swarm of bees, bee; hive

Proto-Albanian: mu:-
Meaning: mouse

Proto-Albanian: nakta:
Meaning: night

Proto-Albanian: o:lena:
Meaning: fore-arm

Proto-Albanian: paru-
Meaning: first

Proto-Albanian: pelma-
Meaning: pollen

Proto-Albanian: pe:pli
Meaning: clod, boulder, rock, stone

Proto-Albanian: plaus´i-ta-
Meaning: flea

Proto-Albanian: prus´a-
Meaning: embers

Proto-Albanian: pupa:
Meaning: bud, button, bunch of grapes, tassel

Proto-Albanian: s´u:-
Meaning: rain

Proto-Albanian: s´urna:
Meaning: urine, piss

Proto-Albanian: taura-
Meaning: bull

Proto-Albanian: to:rei-
Meaning: to dry (up)

Proto-Albanian: tulla-
Meaning: flesh, pulp, crumb
(Greek: ty/los 'torus, wale' Latin: tullius 'swell, flood, gush, jet')

Proto-Albanian: thauila-
Meaning: deep

Proto-Albanian: thelu-
Meaning: clear, serene, fair (weather)

Proto-Albanian: thithera-
Meaning: lentil

Proto-Albanian: thu:-
Meaning: pig

Proto-Albanian: tse:rena:
Meaning: crow

Proto-Albanian: uaina:
Meaning: wine

Proto-Albanian: udha:
Meaning: road, way

Proto-Albanian: uelaudh
Meaning: brother
(Go. jugga-lauths)

Proto-Albanian: ulka-
Meaning: wolf

Proto-Albanian: urdha-
Meaning: ivy

Proto-Albanian: uri-
Meaning: water

Proto-Albanian: urna:
Meaning: sap

Proto-Albanian: ur(u)a:
Meaning: bridge
(Mess. urios 'portam'; Osc. veru 'portam')


Greeting

Marco