From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20665
Date: 2003-04-01
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 12:10 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"
> I agree that Alb. dalta 'chisel' and probabley Rom. too can't be
Slavic loans. As first, it's in Albanian very old denominal gdhend 'to rough-polish, to carve' (cf. ditë 'day' and gdhij 'to rise, to wake up').
What, precisely, does it have to do with <daltë>? I mean, hoe do you propose to relate them?
> Rather we may talk in other direction: that Slavic dlato through metathesis of liquids is a loan from Albanian or Romanian language.
So, I suppose is OPr. dalptan ;-)?