Re: Gland

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <st_george@...> wrote:

> >I guess that Alb. <glëndërë/gâner/gjëndër>
> >'gland', Alb. <lenë/lende> 'acorn', also
> ><landë/lëndë> 'wood, matter, timber' substance',
> >Rom. <ghindã> 'acorn' all points out to PIE *lendh-
> >'open land, land, linden' and, maybe, to compound
> >*o:g-*lendh 'the fruit of land/wood' through reduction
> >of frist element of compound to /g/.
>
> G-L > Rum. g' out of *ooglendh is far-fetched and
> walks, etymologically, on stilts, in comparison with
> the Lat. G-L > Rum. g', that form a specific category,
> fits semantically, too, and has vigorous kinship
> throughout Romania (I mean the territory of Romance
> languages).
>
> NB: in some European languages, for glans penis they
> use the word "acorn" (e.g. in German and Hungarian).
>
> >Konushevci
>
> George

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It's known, at least for me, that every time you are ruled out of
arguments, you try to find asylum in prophane sphere.
Nevertheless, compound with PIE *o:g-/*Hg- are very common in indo-
european languages (cf. Slav. <ja-goda>, different compound in <vin-
ja->). I could prove by other compound in Albanian, like <glli, -një>
also <dë-lli-një> 'juniper berry' that it was also common for
Albanian language. I saw it as a compound of *Hg 'fruit, berry' + *(s)
lieH- 'bluish' (litteraly 'bluish berry', see also <kë-lli-rë 'slop,
dish-water, dirty water' and deverbative <përshkëllij 'to bedaub, to
smear (with ink'). Also Geg <gdhê, -ni>, Tosk <gdhe, -ri> 'knot (of
the wood)' (litteraly 'wood berry').
And, at the end, which is the emymology of the Latin <glans, -dis>?

Konushevci