Re: Ktistai

>Albanische Etymologien
>'hir,-i [hi:r] m. (selten Pl. híre,-t f.)
>(t., g., christliche Kirchensprache) "Gunst, Gnade (Gottes);
>Wohlwollen; Unterstützung; Anmut, Grazie; Amulett; Schönheit";

(...)

>hirësí f. "Hochwürden; Anmut, Grazie",

From Greek hieros? (cf. hieratic, hieroglyph, hierodule; χειροτονῶ)

>got. skeirs "klar" anknüpfte (s. auch Bugge BB 18 [1892] 167: vgl.

>
>ae. scīr "klar";

schier?

>Three words have the odd distribution Romanian, Albanian, Slavic,
>(North) Germanic, Finnic (with exceptions):
>*śλaN- (?) "slave"
>*tərg- (?) "market"
>*(p)k´eN(-st)-(?) "morally/ethnically pure, clean"

Which of these is Romanian?! (NB: Romanian linguistics deem
Romanian târg as an old Slavism tru^gu^.)

George