From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 23496
Date: 2003-06-18
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > Dear Alex,
> > You have mixed too much things. Dushmani is a place name or, much
> > precisely, horonym, and exists much before than Ottoman Empery
> > conquered the Albania. So, even they look similar with Turkish
> > indeclinable adjective düSman 'enemy' < Pers. dushmen, they have
> > nothing in common.
> > Hamp has cited probably CIMOHOWSKY's masterpiece 'Dushman's
Idiom',
> > where the word <njâni> exist. I know exactly that Cimohowsky
denies
> > any connection with this Persian via Turkish word.
> > Basic rule in Albanian language is that Toskë /ë/ reflects
Gegë /â/
> > or /ê/, both nasal vowels: njâni/njëri 'one, someone, somebody'
> > njëri-tjetrin 'each other', tânë/tërë 'all', atâ/atë 'that',
> > këtâ/këtë 'this', pêni/përi 'thread' tc.
> >
> > Konushevci
> > ************
>
> thank you for explanations Abdullah. Is there an another ancient
synonim
> for "dushman"= enemy in Albanian?
>
> Alex