[tied] Re: Albanian connection

Your guess is correct: Alb. fshat < Lat. fossa:tum 'trenchwork,
village protected by ditches' (cf. Old Romanian fsat). The clipping
of long Latin words yields spectacular results in Albanian, e.g.
<ftoi/ftua> 'quince' < Lat. coto:neum (with *kot- > *kt- > *ft-), or
<fqinjët> 'neighbourhood' < Lat. vi:ci:nita:tem.

Piotr

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Fri, 09 Mar 2001 10:51:16 -0000, a96_aeu@... wrote:
>
> >- Could Albanian <fshat> (village) have derived from the same
> >*<woik^os>, <vi:cus> ?
>
> No. As mentioned, *wik^- gives Alb. z-. *woik^- would have given
> *veth- in mod. Alb. I don't have an Albanian etymological
dictionary,
> but my guess would be that <fshat> is a word borrowed from Latin
> (fossatum ?).
>
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