From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 6499
Date: 2001-03-10
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From: <lulzimshtino@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Albanian (Albanian personal names)
> Christianism reached the Albanian culture via Rome, in a very early stage
> (the core Christian terminology in Albanian is Latin). Many Christian
names
> were adopted at that time, and some of these have made it to our day. Such
is
> the case of modern Albanian <Ndue> from a presumably Latin form <Anton>
(or
> something similar); both the aphaeresis of the initial <a->, and the
> transformation <-on> <-ue> are regular (and quite archaic). The same name
is
> also used in its modern form <Anton> more or less by the same people who
now
> perceive <Ndue> as archaic (urban Catholics).
>
> Examples of these early Christian names: <Gjin>, <Mhill>, <Gjon>, <Llesh>,
> <Tome>, <Pal>, <Zef>, <Pjeter>, <Frang>, <Shtjefen>, <Kole>, <Ndre>,
<Pashk>
> etc., all of them still in use among the Catholic mountaneers of Northern
> Albania, who historically have certainly been in contact with the Latin
> population in antiquity and might have been in some touch with
> Medieval-Latin-Balcanic populations (mostly Dalmatian), but practically
NOT
> with the Byzantine administration of the area for geographical reasons.
> Therefore the Byzantine origin for some of these names, although possible,
> still has to be held as much less probable. On the contrary, some Albanian
> names typically medieval, such as <Gjergj> and <Gjorg>, might be
considered
> as related to a South Slavic presence and/or influence. The Christian
> Orthodox population (dominant until the Turks arrived and the mass
> Islamization started) have always used Christian names such as <Mihal>,
> <Thanas>, <Jani>, <Thoma>, <Kristo> etc., but these can hardly be held as
> Byzantine (their form suggest their being not very old; compare the
current
> Christian Orthodox <Mihal> to the old -- but still in use -- Catholic
<Mhill>
> to notice the difference).
>
> Lulzim Shtino
>
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