Re[2]: [tied] "One" in Albanian [Was: some terms for George]

At 12:54:26 AM on Friday, June 20, 2003, altamix wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Lisa Darie <elixir032000@...> wrote:

>> The Indo-Iranian word dusman is in Urdu, Nepali,
>> Kashmiri, Dari spoken in Afganistan, Farsi spoken in
>> Iran, Romanian and Albanian languages. The Thracians,
>> Cimmerians, Scythians and Sarmatians are considered of
>> Iranian origin.

> The word is in fact attested in Balcan in the time of
> homerus, at least so it is supposed. The word should be to
> find in followings( I did not verified them by myself:

> "dusmenes"= malveillant, hostile

This surely must be a Greek formation, from <dus-> 'bad' and
<ménos> 'spirit, disposition'; cf. <Eumenídes>.

Brian