Re: slavic "dalto"

Çabej treats it as cognate with Skt dalyati "to split, to separate"
and as an unchauvenistic linguist, even with Slavic *delbto/*dolbto.
Regards,
Konushevci
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--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 1:09 AM
> Subject: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"
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> > 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