Re: [tied] Re: Ukrainian words from Carpathians

--- alex_lycos <altamix@...> wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > Because the question was addressed to Gasiarowski,
> I like to answer
> > only in two or three words
> > As far as I remember, there are also place name
> Beskides and there
> > are all chances to be explained only through Alb.
> appellative
> > bjeshk� 'summer mountain pasture'.>
> > Konushevci
>
>
> I am afraid we have to wait to see what a meaning
> the ukrainean word
> has.

*****GK: "beskyd" means "precipice" or "steep
precipice"; then again "mountain". I'm not sure if any
of these meanings are independent of, rather than
derivative from, the name "Beskydy" given to ranges in
the Carpathian mountains.*******


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