From: mbikqyres
Message: 18539
Date: 2003-02-07
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:
> a96_aeu@... wrote:
> > Hi Alex !
> >
> > It is Tosk 'gjarpër' and Geg 'gjarpën' in Albanian the word for
> > snake, not 'gjarpë'
> >
> > Alvin
>
>
> thank you Alvin. As Piotr already corrected, yes my dictionary
says the
> same thing. I forgot the "r" here and I shouldnt do it.
> Alb: gjarpër= snake, gjarpërim=Geschlängel ( see Romanian
Serpãrie, but
> Serpui for snake's way to move), Alb gjarpërushe= she-snake, but
> Romanian Serpoaicã.
>
> On another hand I see in my dictionary other forms for Albanians
like:
> "gjarpinj" or "gjërpinj" which means too snake but we have an "n"
like
> in Latin but forms with "n" are not to fin in Romanian
for "*serpen".
>
>
> Alex