Catunari
From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 23924
Date: 2003-06-26
In "Balkanika" alex lycos wrote:
an 743 :
Vensero asai gente de Bosna... et eziam vensero de Murlachi da
bosco sopra Narneta, piu Catunari, fra li quali era uno capo sopra
tuti, e vensero con grande multitudine de bestiame de diverse raxon
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Are you aware that word <catunari> is indeed plural form of Albanian
word <katunar> 'peasant', build by suffix -ar (cf. qytet 'town' and
qytetar 'citizen', <fshat> 'hamlet, country', but
<fshatar> 'villager, countryman') from <katun(d)> 'village',
extended in all Balkan languages.
Konushevci