From: alex_lycos
Message: 19451
Date: 2003-03-01
> Yes, the meaning seems quite different. But, as much as I know, Alb.The bird I spoked about is not in the family of merge because there is
> mërgoj must be very recent loans (plain g and k before the front
> vowels undergos always palatalization: I mean in PIE roots and in
> Latin and Greek loans, not on Sllavic, italian), surely not from
> Latin. Its meaning is to go away from somewhere, to be isolated
> somewhere, even it has also the meaning to migrate. In Albanian it
> has not any lexical family, like it has, as I see, in Rumanian
>
> With regards:
> Abdullah Konushevci