Re: [tied] green albanian

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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> From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 2:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] green albanian
>> a) can you show the "gjëlbër" is not in the same family with
>> gëlbazë"?
>
> Why should I? It's the suggested relationship that has to be
> demonstrated, not its lack. I don't have to prove that UFO abductions
> don't take place; it's the duty of those who believe in them to prove
> that they're real (not that they _can_ prove it ...). Can you show
> that there _is_ a connection between gjëlbër and gëlbazë? They merely
> _look_ similar, but they don't even have compellingly similar
> meanings. As far as I'm concerned, <galbeazã> and <gëlbazë> (there
> are also dialectal variants with /k-/) may be, respectively, a
> genuine substrate word in Romanian and an inherited one in Albanian
>
> Piotr

Very right your point of view.
I am not able to say if there is a borrowing from romanian language
since I have no historical data for showing a perioad where romanians
lived together with albanians. From what I know,from the history which
we know, there is no posiblity of living together. The linguistic is the
one which can think about a together living. The amount of common words
is tough relative small for a togetherliving, far away smaller as the
socalled south slavic words which are common to slavs and albanian or
south slavs and romanians.
I do not exclude at all the possibility of living together but if there
it has been one then just under these posibilities:
- before slavic invasion in balcans, the invasion of the slavs parting
them.
- the words were borrowed from valahians.
- the common words are remnances of maybe pre-thracian fundus


Alex