On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 22:21:41 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
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a_konushevci@...> wrote:
>Reading with big care these messages, I wonder could Albanian river
>name Ibar (cf. Ebro in Spain),
Basque ibai "river" is probably a derivative somehow of ibar "valley".
Given Basque historical phonology [most words start with a vowel, and
no ancient words start with voiceless stops], it's hard to say if
there's any connection with an Ibar in Albania or anywhere else.
Modern Basque ibar can go back to either *ibar, *kibar, *pibar or,
most interestingly, *tibar.
>Alb. et-je 'thirst' and hardhi '(grape-)vine, vine.
Pokorny gives this as hardi (and connects it with Armenian ort`).
Typo?
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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