Re: [tied] PIE *leuk

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> > 26-08-03 23:31, alex wrote:
> >
> >> that is OK with it; the problem which I have with Germanic is

that it

> >> changed the k > h in a very early period ( end of it presumab.
> >> 500-300 BC), thus is of no use for explaining the romanian form:-

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> >
> > _What_ Romanian form?
> >
> > Piotr
>
> a licãri = to sparkle, to glitter, to wink; to flicker
> s.n. licãr= flicker
> s.f. licãrire= flicker
> s.n. licãrit= flicker
>
> as derivative:
>
> s.m. licurici=glow-wurm
>
> regional variants of the verb: a licuri, a licãri, a licura
>
> Maybe from the same root, name masculine as "Licã" ( I have a lot of
> reserves here)
>
> Alex

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PIE *leuk-/*leuk^- 'to shine, to see' derives in Alb. <i lum> 'white,
blessed, happy' from zero-grade form *luk- + -m, <të lumet> 'fairy'
(cf. also in Semitic <hurije> 'nymphs of light' from <hu:r> 'lights')
<lumbardhë> 'dove' (I guess present also in Slavic patronymics as
Lubarda) and <lumë> 'river'.

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