Re: [tied] Greek "angos" and Albanian ships

Dear Dan,

I wish you a speedy recovery from all those "angs" and the best of luck in general.

Funny how one thing leads to another. It seems that <angos> 'vessel' does have putative cognates outside Greek in Celtic (OIrish aigen 'pan', Skt aga- 'water jar') and Albanian. The Albanian cognate is anë, pl. enë 'vase, pot' < *angna: < *h2ang-n-ah2. This, quite unexpectedly, accounts for Alb. anjë 'ship', discussed here a few weeks ago. It is a derivative of anë, calquing the etymological relation between Latin va:s 'dish, utensil' and late Lat. vascellum 'vessel' (also = 'ship'). The actual model seems to have been Italian (vaso : vascello), so <anjë> is probably a relatively recent Italo-Albanian coinage.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: danjmi

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Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2002 4:45 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] Greek "angos"

Thank you, Piotr, for your prompt reply to my inquiry about "angos", and tgpedersen for your extensive (overextensive?) list of worldwide reflexes of H-N-G. I offer as a double warning against being tricked by superficial verbal similarities that the angioscopy for my etymologically unrelated angina found stenosis (> another Greek word of no convincing etymology?) of a coronary artery, now corrected by a stent (> Charles Stent 19th Century English dentist). Anyway, I hope it keeps me around to enjoy Cybalist and other pleasures a few more years.