Re: to buy-revised

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> But what about Albanian? I have no idea
> if there is something in Albanin which will fit into this

equation.

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> Albanian word for to buy is "me ble". Its etymology is very hard.
> There are temptation to treat it is Latin loan from never atessted
> *ablevare (Meyer). Jokl see in it prefixed form b-< mb- + root
> identical with the verb laj "to pay". Tagliavini, Hamp, Çabej
> connect it with Latv. blenst "to see badly, to look".
> I am afraid that Jokl etymology is the rightest one, especially if
> we take in account that there are in old Albanian word mbles "go-
> between, match-maker" with derivates mblesë, mblesëri, etc. But,

the

> verb laj has also the meaning "wash" and there also another verb

for

> payin something me shlye "to pay off; to erase, to wipe out". So,
> instead of this Balto-Slavic cognat, I dare to say that we must
> search Germanic cognat, because primary form of this verb is mb-
> +lenj < *lon (cf. Eng. loan from ON lan).
> If we treat the language as the social phenomenon, I think that

here

> we have to deal with the act of taking and giving or exchanging

the

> goods. So, if you buy somthing or if you take something from
> someone, you will be marked in someway, until you don't pay or, as

Albanian verb denote, until this mark was not washed, erased, etc.
[I think that Slavic kupiti "to buy" and kupati "to wash" are
derived as Albanian blej "to buy" < mb- + laj "to wash", from the
same root.]

>
>
> Regards,
> Abdullah Konushevci