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

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...>
> wrote:
>
>>> "dusmenes"= malveillant, hostile
>
>> This surely must be a Greek formation, from <dus-> 'bad' and
> <ménos> 'spirit, disposition'; cf. <Eumenídes>.
>
> Of course <dus-mene:s> is an attested Greek adjective, cognate to
> Skt. dur-manas- 'evil disposition, perversity of mind' (both from
> *dus-menes-, cf. also Iranian *dus^-manah-). There's nothing
> specifically "Balkan" about it; it's an inherited IE word. Turkic
> duSman looks to me like an obvious loan from Persian (I haven't done
> the checking but I'd be surprised if it were something else).
> Nevertheless, it was the Turks, not Iranians or Thracians, that (re)
> introduced the word in the Balkan region.
>
> Piotr

a bit help for you. The persian word wherefrom the turks should have had
borrowed it should be "düsmen" if my sources are not wrong.

alex