--- In cybalist@..., DEFAYES MICHEL <mdesfaye@...> wrote:
> MD As a native speaker of Albanian, you have rightly felt the
connection between Ulysses and Odysseus and Albanian udë (and
Romanian uditzâ small road, and with the change d>l, Russian ulitsa
street) has been dismissed unceremoniously... Haven't you felt the
current coming against you ?
Yes I feel it ! But I can not force people to draw their attention
towards alternatives Albanian can offer on explanation of old terms as
in might be the case of Odysses.
In Albanian "udhë" (road, way, travel, journey, direction) is widely
used filling all the fields such a word can be used. What made Odysses
fascinating was his journey, which made him a traveler. He was
destined to spend his life traveling.
Everything points at the journey full of adventures.
> MD
> Don't misunderstand me Alvin ! I wrote "the credo of the followers
> of the "normal method" is that the Illyro-Albanian continuity is but
a purely imaginative and chauvinistic belief professed by Albanians".
It is because of my naivity mixed up with the countercurrent. I
thought I met another one of them you are talking about.. :)
Alvin