From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6425
Date: 2001-03-07
>--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:<thell-> is from PIE *<k^owilo-> (as is Greek <koilos> "hollow").
>> Albanian etymology is very difficult, so please give me a little
>time for a full answer. Right now I can only say that I've seen a
>derivation of <det> from PIE *dHeub(H)-eto- 'the deep', with the same
>root that is visible e.g. in English <deep>.
>
>Then your thoughts will run to the real Albanian word for <deep>
>which is <thell->.
>Has it also derived from PIE *dHeub(H)- ?
>But "det" looks to be very original. It might even speak about theSlavic <morje> is native, not from Latin.
>concept of the sea as a sea (not as a lake) proto Albanians had.
>If the word "det" is to be as old as the time when the area was
>populated by Illyrians then this must speak about a an Illyrian
>connection.
>It is hard to believe proto Albanians could give an original name to
>something they hadn´t seen.
>They could very well had borrowed the Latin word "Mar´", as the Slavs
>looks to have done "More".