Re: [tied] Re: Albanian Names (2) -> Bessa comeback

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

>>
>>
>> if you go on with your assumption "loans from Albanian to
>> Romanian" as you can see the situation of these loans is quite
>> complex and your afirmation "ancient albanian ci kept by romanian"
>> became "today albanian s" ...is at least not complete:
>
> [AK] It is generally known that borrowed words preserved much oldest
> forms, the phenomenon noticed at all languages in close contact.

> Konushevci

I guess Marius wants to stress soemething else. If the group "c^i" in
Rom. should be the older form for Albanian "s", then how does it comes
that in the given example there is no Albanian "s" but "c^i" as in Rom.
?

This is what I guess that was intended by Marius.

Alex