Re: Albanian Christian religious terminology [Was: Re: [tied] Basil

--- alex <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> george knysh wrote:

******GK: I tried to find some of the terms Abdullah
hadn't put into his first post by consulting an
on-line Spanish-Albanian dictionary. Oddly enough, it
had no Albanian equivalents for "Dios" "Navidad" or
"resurreccion"

> >
> > (a) God. Rom.: DUMNEZEU. Alb.: ? ??
> > (b) priest. Rom.: PREOT. Alb.: PRIFT (both from

PRESBYTER no doubt)

> > (c) baptism. Rom.: BOTEZ. Alb.: PAGEZUN (derivable

from BAPTISMA also?)

> > (d) Christmas. Rom.: CRACIUN. Alb.: ? ??
> > (e) resurrection. Rom.: INVIEREA. Alb.: ? ??
> > (f) Saviour. Rom.: SALVATOR*. Alb.: SHALBYES (?)
> >
> > * is this a recently borrowed term ? Pacurariu
> doesn't
> > mention it.
>
> George, you have to change for (f) the word. There
> is no "salvator"
> (this is a recent word from Italian) but there is
> "M�ntuitor" from
> "m�ntui" = to save
> m�ntui= cf DEX from Hungarian "menteni"

******GK: Thanks Alex.*****


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