Re: [tied] barba, farfeche, bãiat

Hello !
It might be interesting to know which form is older, Tosk "vjetër" or
Geg "vjetën".

regards
Alvin

> That Albanian has retained the PIE word *wet(es)- "year" is true,

but it

> doesn't
> mean that vjetruar (< *wetra:nV) can't be from Latin. In fact it

*must* be,

> because Albanian native words do not have the development /s/ > /r/

typical

> of
> Latin (*wetesa:nos > vetera:nus).
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