Re: [tied] Yers

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 18:45:30 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
<a_konushevci@...> wrote:

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>By all means, <gargara> seems to be onomatopoeic word
>by reduplication of the stem gar-, like Alb. onomatopoeic words:
>gurgullon < gurgur-on 'gurgle' and have nothing to do with "hacer
>gargaras" in Spanish.

Of course it's onomatopoeic (cf. Spa. garganta "throat"), that's why I
didn't bother to give the etymology. But in fact Spanish, "hacer gárgaras"
is derived from Greek <gargarizo:>, through medical Latin, and so is
Bulgarian "prjavja si gargara", unless I'm very much mistaken.

><pita> 'pie, honycomb' is also present in
>Albanian and I am afraid that it is singularized plural of
><petë> 'sheet, something flatten' and also have nothing to do with
>pizza

I'm afraid that the names of the flatbreads pizza (Napoli), pitta
(Calabria), pettole (Brindisi) are all derived from Greek pitta ~ pissa, as
are Turkish pide, Lebanese pita etc.


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