[tied] Re: Yers

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> fortuna11111 wrote:
> >>
> >> BTW 1: Didn't gargara enter the language rather from Greek?
> >
> > There is such a word in Greek?
> >
> > Eva
>
> yes it is. The word is "gharghara". It enterd Romanian too where the
> words is "gargarã". As far I remember ( correct me please if I am

wrong)

> even in Bulgarian the last wovel is a schwa.

No, it is an /a/, but anyway, your comments and Miguels have very
much cleared the picture on this word.

> The meaning in Rom. Lang is to gargle, gargle.The verb

is "gargarisi"

> ( NeoGreek "ghargharizo")
> It entered Albanian too "gargare" and the verb is "gargarit".

Yes, you have all sorts of "gurgling" and "babbling" words in all
languages. We have "gUrgorja", "dUrdorja", "bUrborja", etc.

Eva