Re: Clueless roolz...

fournet.arnaud schrieb:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "altamix" <alxmoeller@... <mailto:alxmoeller%40arcor.de>>
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> > And DEX online doesn't actually say that it's from Albanian
> > <ujë>; it just says 'cf. alb. _ujanë_'.
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> > Brian
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> >I guess you won't find any entry in DEX which should say " from
> >Albanian", but everywhere it is said "cf. Albanian". Beeing actually just
> >in
> >Albanian to find, you can compare it just with the words which are in
> >Albanian. Hence, "cf. Albanian".
> >Alex
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> Nice idea
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> For example
> Germanic *sajwa "sea, lake"
> Cf. Kartvelian zGva "sea, lake"
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> Or
> German Igel "hedgehog"
> Cf. Kartvelian zGar
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> Arnaud
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yes but the phonetical correspondances and the semantism of the words
are very clear and one can hardly consider such pairs as being
coincidences. I am not sure this can be said about Germanic-Kartvelian.

best regards

Alexandru Moeller