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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george_st@...> wrote:
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> Key words: "stump", "stub", "cut off (part/tip); cut short; stunted",
> "blunt"
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>
> cf. Alb. [c^unk] (sp.?), Ital. /cionco/, Calabria Ital. /mani-ciuncu/
> "mutilated"
> cf. Ital. /cioncare/, Calabria Ital. /ciuncari/ "to mutilate"
> cf. Hung. /csonka/ [c^onkO] "(1) one-armed; (2) mutilated; (3)
truncated"
>
> George
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Alb cung (c<ts with voiceless apical affricate), pl cungje/cunga 1.
part of a plant/tree that remains in the ground after cutting: stump,
stubble 2. bare grapevine; grapevine root; 3. stump of an arm of leg;
4. (Ichth) young summer mullet.
Derivatives include: cung-ajë 'land with tree stumps', cung-al
'truncated, stumped', cungë 'sheep or goat with bobbed tail or short
horns; child's gums before the emergence of the milk teeth'; i/e
cung-ët 'truncated, cut off; maimed, amputated, disabled, crippled;
defective; cung-oj 'to lop the branches off (a tree); reduce (a tree)
to a trunk/stump; to decrease in a value or size by removing a part:
shorten, truncate, abridge, dock, bob, cripple, (med) to amputate; i/
e cung-uar 'trimmed of braches; having only the trunk left'; cung-ull
'missing a libm: maimed, crippled'; cung-ull-oj 'to trimm branches
from a tree trunk, to amputate' etc. It is present in compound as
second element: dorë-cung 'one-handed, missing a hand/arm', krah-cung
'missing a arm', vesh-cung 'with small ears' etc. It is also attested
in place name Cung-aj-et and in patronymics as Cungu.
As well Meyer have compared Alb cung with It cionco 'amputated', Rom
ciung and Hung czonka 'trunk'.
My view is that this word could be derived from -w- extended root
*seuk- of the root *sek- 'to cut'. Indeed, from nasalized prefixed
form *to- + *sunk-o- > PAlb t&sunka.
But, the problem is that this word was attested, according to Çabej,
also as sungu (Budi SC 133, 277) and Sung (Bardhi).
Konushevci