Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (Albanian personal names)

Since everyone now is talking about Albanian, I'd like to ask...
what are the Albanian equivalents to Personal names...
John -
Peter -
Paul - Pal ?
George -
Charles -
Mary -
Anna -
Julius -
Demetrius -
Alexander - Shkander ?
Gregor -
Marcus -
Matthew -
Lucas -
Moses -
Abraham -




Joao SL
Rio de Janeiro

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Subject: Odp: [tied] Re: Albanian


> --- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> "The deep" for "the sea" is a rather comon term. It's difficult to
> date its formation with any precision, I'm afraid.
>
> - I think an approximative dating would be adequate.
> Could you please name some other languages where the same change has
> occured ?
>
> Piotr:
> > I've been thinking of <guvë>, though. If one insisted on an IE
> etymology, it could be derived from the (vaguely iconic) root *gHah2-
> 'open, yawn' (hence *gHah2-m(-r), *-m-en- 'mouth, palate', also Eng.
> gum < OE go:ma). The derivative *gHh2-wo-s is attested with the
> meaning 'cavity, empty space' (cf. Greek khaos < *khawos), and
> derivation of Alb. guvë from it would be pretty straightforward.
>
> - It looks like as if there were some other candidates for that place:
> <hap> (open, where <hap-si-> = space, open space), <goj-> (mouth) also
> attested with the meaning 'cavity, empty space'
>
> Alvin
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