Re: [tied] Albanian origins and much more

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 35486
Date: 2004-12-19

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> george knysh wrote:
> >
> > *****GK: I couldn't draw any facile conclusions about
> > the validity or non-validity of his views simply on
> > the basis of the super-abbreviated statements of that
> > newspaper interview. He does however cite authorities.
> > I'm not familiar with most, but I do know Georgiev's
> > work, which does not strike me as something to be
> > dismissed out of hand. Who is "Vaigand" ?*****
>
>
> Gustav Weigand. Romanist, Linguist: 1860-1932(?). So far I
remember he is
> the one who invented the therm "aromanian" for differenciating
the "Beli
> Vlasi from "Cerno Vlasi":-)
>
> Alex
************
Gustav Lüdwig Weigand, author of the "Albanesisch-Deutsches und
Deutsch-Albanesisches Wörterbuch" (Leipzig, 1914) and "Albanesische
Grammatik im südgegischen Diealect (Durazzo, Elbasan, Tirana),
Leipzig, 1913 – was first linguist who try to deny Albanian
filiation from Illyrian. There are known his 12 thesis against
Albanian origin from Illyrian, all rejected scientifically by Eqrem
Çabej.

Konushevci