From: alex
Message: 24258
Date: 2003-07-07
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2003 9:12 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: about the wrong roots
> ************
> It seems that you agree that Alb. <qarr> 'oak' is derived form Lat.
> quernus (a substantivised adjective), even that you are aware of
> assimilation in distance of labiovelars in Italo-Celtic and
> Illyrian/Albanian.
> I didn't except nothing better.
>
> Konushevci
quernus from *querc-nos.
Illyrian Glosse "querke:ni:" seen by Jokl as "Eichenmänner".
Comparative, Latin has "quer-", Illyrian "quar-".
Alex