19-07-03 16:06, alex wrote:
> The Albanian form "kushëri" does not seem to derive from the *cosinus,
> even wit the rothacism of "n"..
More seriously, you should consider the whole Albanian set: Tosk m.
<kushëri> (indef.), <kushëriri> (def.), pl. <kushërinj>, f. <kushërirë>
(indef.) etc. Even without examining the Geg counterparts with
non-rhotacised /n/ it's clear that something like *kusurín- (exactly as
in Arumanian) underlies it all. Of course the corresponding Vulgar Latin
form is the fuller *co(n)sobrínu- not the compositionally abbreviated
*cosínu-.
Piotr