Re: Ukrainian words from Carpathians

>For "koshara" one could see the Romanian suffix "-ar"
>attached to a Slavic loan word.

Or the Hungarian suffix "-ár": kosár ['koSa:r]. Also see:
http://tinyurl.com/bugb (there you'll see the variant
"kosárka" ['koSa:rkO] as well; cf. Rum. co$arcã)

AFAIK, the Hungarian variant is also Slavic, and has
nothing to do with "kos" [koS] (ram; Aries), which in
turn has a Turkish counterpart "koç" [kotS].

>For "beskyd" I have no suggestion. What does that mean?!

[I only know of some mountains having (in Romanian)
this name: "muntii Beschizi."]

> Marius Iacomi

George