Re: [tied] Latin verus

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> 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

That will speak for a loan from Aromanian. The same is sustained for
Albanian "kuvent". If I am not too wrong I guess Rosetti explained that
this is a loan from Aromanian into Albanian.

Alex