From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50317
Date: 2007-10-17
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski____________________________________________________________________________________
> <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 2007-10-16 18:21, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> >
> > > Can 'hat' be traced back to a PIE *kaT-T- , as
> is the case of Latin
> > > cassis and PAlb. /kac^ula/ ?
> >
> > I wonder if MLat. casula 'cloak with a cowl'
> (hence kos(^)ulja or the
> > like for 'shirt' in various Slavic languages)
> belongs here rather than
> > being a diminutive of <casa>. I mean it could have
> been a substratal
> > word of the Balkan area borrowed into Vulgar
> Latin, perhaps with 'hood'
> > as the original meaning. I'd put my money on a
> Klugean
> reconstruction of
> > the Gmc. "hat" word as *kaT-n�-, in which case
> *kaT-t�- would be
> related
> > but not quite the same.
> >
> > Piotr
> ************
> I raise the question of relatedness of *kadh- and
> *kat-, based on Alb.
> kacole 'kind of hat weaved together with coat' <
> *kadh-s-, besides
> Alb. kësulë. 'hat'. I think that Alb. kat-un(t)
> 'village', borrowed
> on all Balkans languages with primary meaning
> 'house', Alb. kas-olle
> 'hut, usually build to guard the garden, vineyard',
> attested also in
> place names and patronymics as Kac-ori, especially
> in Albanian
> enclaves in Bulgaria; katua 'cot, cowehouse', kot-ec
> 'cote, henhouse',
> if we accept a/o change in some Illyrian dialects
> (Messapian,
> Liburnian) are simple the derivative of *kat-. So,
> Latin casa 'house'
> < *kat-ya:, with its phonetism, points to Umbrian or
> some Illyrian
> dialect.
> I suspect of any impact of Kluge's Law on Albanian
> after demonstration
> by E. Hamp that Alb. besë 'faith, trust' is derived
> not from
> *bhoidh-ta:, but from *bhidh-t-ya:, accepted as well
> by C. Watkins.
>
> Konushevci
>
>
>