Re: [tied] Re: Ukrainian words from Carpathians

--- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
wrote:

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> -at is Alb. plural of names in feminine gender:
> fushat, vashat,
> �ikat, etc., -iens or -ians is suffix denoting the
> inhabitants of
> some place. <Karp�> 'cliff, craggy rock', pl.
> 'karpat' is just a
> metathetic form of todays prefixed form <sh-krep>
> 'crag, rough rock',
> pl. <shkrepat> 'id'. So, we may deduce that krap
> <krap is primitive
> singular of <sh-krep>, which is singularized plural.
>
> Konushevci
>
> Konushevci

*****GK: Would you say, then, that "Carpathian"
derives from an ancient Albanoid *karpat which means,
as Piotr intimated, "the rockies"?****

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