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

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 23526
Date: 2003-06-18

18-06-03 23:14, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:

> One can also think of contamination with the adjective (SCr.) prijatan
> "pleasant" (-> "friendly") [even though I guess prijatelj (*prIja-) and
> prijatan (*pri-je~- ?) are not etymologically related, or are they?].

They aren't; *prije~tInU comes from 'receive, accept'. But I agree that
contamination is very likely in this case.

Piotr