Re: [tied] "One" in Albanian [Was: some terms for George]

), the >"një" has the same form for masculine and femine

>>
>> If you had paid attention, you'd *know* you're wrong. Piotr quoted
>> Hamp quoting Dushmani njâni (m.) and njâna (f.).
>
> ... and I only gave one such inflected pair as an example. There's a
> whole collection of them in Hamp's article, from both Geg and Tosk
> dialects. Common Albanian *njân- is the only thinkable starting point.
> Of course the less one knows, the more one speculates.
>
> Piotr

You are right in saying the less one know the more one can speculate. In
fact I do not have access to the regionalism of Albanian and "Dushman"
is just "enemy" as in Romanian "duSman".The form "dushmani" seemed to me
to be the plural form of "Dushman" and I seen no connection with "njân"
which is not given by my dictionary. I was not aware of another meaning
of "dushmani" and I could not thrace the relation "Dushmani njâni" which
should be nice if it will be translated.

alex