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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
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> From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 9:57 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] right roots
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> I think it could be a Persian loan <sag> 'dog', extended in
suffix -
> ar.
> The <g>, like in corgi.
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> Konushevci
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> Jokl see the Albanian "shak(ë)" (bitch) as being a loan from
Iranian.
> Whic is the way how this became loaned this is an another question.
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> Alex
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I think that Norbert Jokl has had right. It may be one of oldest
loan in Proto-Albanian, due to, at most, regular change /s/>/sh/ in
it. Cf., for example, <shat> 'hoe' derived from *sokti. Otherwise,
one of oldest word <nuse:> 'bride' < *snuso:s preserved /s/ and
position of the stress too, attested in the idiom of Arvanites.
So, why shouldn't be also inherited word <zagar> 'dog', because we
couldn't say, for sure, that in all stages of its development,
palatovelar /k^/ or /g^/ gives in Albanian interdental /th/ or /dh/
respectively.
After all, language is a dynamic structure. Some sound-laws appear
for some time and disappear for a while, some have much longer life.
In different contexts sounds have different behavior, etc.
Besides all these words for "dogs", the Albanian language has also:
<kone> 'pet dog; pup(py)', <langua> 'hund' and in syntagmatic
connection <langua për lepuj> 'harrier', <langua për dhelpra> 'fox-
terrier'; <këlysh> 'pup', etc. Furthermore, killing of the others
dog, has been sanctioned in Albanian Common Law and one who does
this, was punished like he was punished for a wound, etc.
Konushevci