Re: [tied] the bee

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"

<dmilt1896@...>

> > wrote:
> >> terminology for
> >>> bees. Maybe Abdullah will complete with Albanian words
> >>> Rom. Eng. Alb
> >>> albinã = bee = bletë
> >>> trântor = drone = as verb gumëzhij, noun granëz (cf. anëz)
> >>> matcã = queen = amë 'mother'
> >>> roi = swarm = luzmë
> >>> stup = behive = zgjua
> >>> prisacã = beefarm = ?
> >>> fagure = honeycomb = huall, pl. hoje
> >>> cearã = wax = dyllë
>
>
> Abdullah, if my dictionary is not wrong there in Albanian the word
> "matkë" trhe same as Rom. "matcã" and it means queen of bees

exactly as

> in Romanian.More, in Albanian it has an secondary meaning of any

animal

> leader of a group of animals .
>
> For "drone" I have here in Albanian a "brumbull"
> For "swarm" (lujmë) there is too "roit" as the Rom. "roi, a roi"

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Dear Alex,
It seems that You or those who have inform You have mixed matca with
meçka, present only in some city idioms, meaning she-bear.
Drone, exept the meaning of bug, in some dialects has also the
meaning 'bumble-bee, drone'. I am sorry, but I was not aware about
these secondary meanings.
About roit, it could be there in some dialects they use this word,
but word 'luzmë' - swarm - is widely spreaded in all Albanian
language.

Konushevci