Re: [tied] Ukrainian words from Carpathians

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From: Abdullah Konushevci

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Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:16 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Ukrainian words from Carpathians

> As far as I remember, there are also place name Beskides and there are all chances to be explained only through Alb. appellative bjeshkë 'summer mountain pasture'.

 

Yes, several mountain ranges in southern Poland are called Beskid or (pl.) Beskidy (< *beskydU < **besku:do-, with loss of palatalisation that looks as if it were due to Czech/Slovak/Ukrainian influence). The word is genuinely old and the Albanian connection may be real. Like the name of the Carpathians 'the Rockies' (cf. Alb. karpë), which is well over 2000 years old, it may be a surviving substrate word.

 

Piotr