Re: Post-Gothic "Getic" fantasies

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: mbikqyres
> To: cybalist@...
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 4:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Post-Gothic "Getic" fantasies
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>
> > And how about Latin <fides> "faith"?
> > It sounds very likely, but I don't have an Albanian etymological
> > dictionary at hand, so it would be irresponsible of me to make a
> > definite positive answer.
> >
> > Torsten
>
>
> Also <be> means 'oath' in Albanian. <bëj be> 'swear'.
>
> Alvin

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> <be> comes from *bHoidH-ah2, cognate to Lat. fi:dere (*bHeidH-),
fide:s (*bHidH-) and to Germanic *bi:dan 'await' (*bHeidH-). It is
unrelated to the *bHendH- 'bind' root, from which <besë> apparently
derives (via *bHendH-s-ah2).
>
> Piotr
>
>
Semantically, they're too close for comfort. What if the -n- was
originally a present infix, then you'd have two roots *bHAdH- and
*bHAidH-? Messy.

BTW, to Alvin: If there is an old sea-related terminology among
Albanian fishermen, considering the relevance of that to questions of
Albanian ethogenesis, shouldn't someone see to it that it is recorded?

Torsten