From: alex
Message: 22498
Date: 2003-06-02
> I think that it is illustrative example of expressive plural (cf.OK, I got stoped here by etymology of the word. Which is in your opinion
> luftime, krime, shkrime, etc.) of the denominal therrinj, today not
> active (cf. grinj `to mince', grimë `crumb', entered also in
> Dalmatian) became again deverbative thërrime. If we agree that
> <thorn, thorny> implies something worrying, excited, I don't know how
> you couldn't understand the meaning of the farima 'crumb'. This
> expressive plural is used always in constructions like: rritem me
> thërrime 'I grow up by crumbs'.
>
> Konushevci