Re: Ukrainian words from Carpathians

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

>
> --- Abdullah Konushevci <a_konushevci@...>
> wrote:
> > ************
> > -at is Alb. plural of names in feminine gender:
> > fushat, vashat,
> > çikat, etc., -iens or -ians is suffix denoting the
> > inhabitants of
> > some place. <Karpë> '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
> >
>
> *****GK: Would you say, then, that "Carpathian"
> derives from an ancient Albanoid *karpat which means,
> as Piotr intimated, "the rockies"?****

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Yes, exactly so, but I add a metathetic form, probably as a result of
liquid's metathesis karp<krap, as primitive singular of Alb. <krep>,
singularized plural, and prefixed form too 'shkrep'.

Konushevci