[tied] Re: Albanian (3)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> It appears pretty interesant now the slavic *torkU versus

Romanian "toarce",

> the Romanian "tors" versus slavic *torc^.. in fact they appear to

be the

> same word.. or a loan from a language into another language..

since Latin

> appears to be older here due torquere.... something against the

idea Slavic

> "torku" is in fact just a loan from Rom. Pers 1 Sg. " eu torcu" (I

wist, I

> wrench)?

Pokorny root #2004 *terk, *trek 'turn'. Found in Indic, Greek,
Latin, Celtic, Germanic, West Baltic, Slavic and Tocharian. It's
another word with PIE *k, as opposed to *k^or *kW.

Richard.