From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 22500
Date: 2003-06-02
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > I think that it is illustrative example of expressive plural (cf.
> > 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
>
> OK, I got stoped here by etymology of the word. Which is in your
opinion
> the root where from the word "thërrime" derive from? Is there a
family
> or something like this?