From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20676
Date: 2003-04-02
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:09 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"
> Gdhend is related to dalta. Indeed, it's an prefixal form *ga- (prefix) +*da- (root 'to separate, to devide') + -suffix -ent.
With dalta 'chisel' we polish or separate the unuseful parts of the wood (cf. another Alb. word gdhe, pl. gdhenj 'gnarl, knot').
And how, namely, do you derive <daltë> from "*da-" (I suppose you mean *dah2- 'share, divide')?
Piotr