Alb. "dirt"
From: alex_lycos
Message: 21833
Date: 2003-05-13
Abdullah, there is the albanian word for "dirt" which is "murdar".
Is this word seen too as turkish loan into Albanian?
I wonder about this word since the form is exactly as the form in the IE
languages for "dirt"
see Latin: merdalus with derivative "merda" preserved in Romance ( but
not in Rom.). Greek "smerdaleus", Lith. "smardas", etc.
I asked my colleague what does mean in turkish "dirt" , "unclean",
"impur" and she told me about "kirli", "pis", and she said the word
"murdar" is unknown to her.
Of course the words exist in Turkish and has the meaning of
"murdar"(dirt, unclean, impure).
It is the question if this word which has the same form in Rom. ,
Albanian and Turkish is a word loaned into the Turkish language ( see
the fact a simply speaker knew the turkish words [kirli,pis] but not the
word [murdar]) or if indeed this word was loaned by Albanians and
Romanians from Turks.
I am a bit confused since the turkish word has the same stem as the IE
one *(s)mVrd.
alex