Piotr wrote:
>Albanian certainly has northerly affinities
>(as noted also by Eric Hamp, another eminent
>student of the language), but there is no
>particularly close relationship to Baltic. I
>take Albanian/Dacian to be one of the Satem
>groups more or less coordinate with Balto-
>Slavic, Indo-Iranian, Armenian and Thracian.
In:
Eric Hamp, The Position of Albanian
http://members.tripod.com/~Groznijat/balkan/ehamp.html
there is this sentence:
<<For Salentine Greek, G. Rohlfs (Die Sprache 1959: 5.173-175)
has proposed a Messapic etymon /*squeros/ for the word /skero/,
and puts this in relation with Albanian /hirrë/ "Käsewasser.">>
Can Romanian "zer" and "[zar&]" be seen in this relationship
as well? ("zer"/"zară" mean "Käsewasser" - more or less)
George