Re: [tied] Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between Greek

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> 13-07-03 00:49, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > For example, even very recent Turkish loan <sall> 'just, only' <
> > Turkish <salte> 'only'.
>
> What does the treatment of a recent borrowing from Turkish have to

do

> with the supposed treatment of loans from Slavic 1400 years ago?

By

> "recent" times the word had become structurally indistinguishable

from

> the inherited lexical stock. It was already "native" in the sense

that

> no native speaker would have been able to recognise it as a loan.

If the

> combination /lt/ has survived in words inherited from Proto-

Albanian, it

> would have survived in <daltë> as well.
>
> Piotr

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Historically speaking, the difference between Slavic loans and
Turkish ones could be, in some regions, like Dardania, just 100-200
years, and in some others, like in South Albania, 400-500 or, if you
wish, at most 700 (The Balkans falls und Ottoman Empery in XIV
century).

Konushevci