Re: [tied] Alb. katër

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 17-11-03 18:36, alex wrote:
>
>> I exposed the idea of G. Meyer and
>> Pedersen because:
>> 1) this was an alternative
>> 2) for showing how easy one could link something to Latin;
>
> This might be true of <katër> but not of the other Albanian numerals
> except the highest ones (<(një)qind> '100', <(një) mijë> '1000', which
> _are_ of Latin origin, plus of course <(një) milion> '1000000' etc.).
> The lower ones, namely <një> (~ <njân->) '1', <dy> '2', <tre>/<tri:>
> '3', <pesë> ~ <pêsë> '5', <gjashtë> '6', <shtatë> '7', <tetë> '8',
> <nëntë> ~ <nândë> '9', <dhjetë> '10' and <(një)zet> '20' are all
> inherited. Linking them to Latin wouldn't be easy at all.
>
> Piotr

but it seems easy enough to link them to Rom; at least dy, tre, gjashtë,
shtate, tetë, nëntë, dhjetë ( if for 10 indeed "k^" got lost as Abdullah
assume for some stops in certain conditions) don't appears to me to make
some troubles in linking them, don't you find?
The most interesting here seems to me by now the "gjash(të)" versus Rom.
"Sase" ( cf. gjarpër-Sarpe).

Alex