ornit. terminology (Re: Piotr-)

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

> 03-09-03 13:51, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
>
> > About *g^Hjes- > heri: > ieri, I must say that in Alb. is

preserved

> > *g^H- > d - in dje 'yesterday', like in <dorër>.
>
> Of course. It's an inherited word in Albanian, and shows the normal
> Satem development of *g^H. Rom. ieri is not substratal (unlike the
> 'stork' word) but normally inherited from PIE via Latin.

Incidentally,

> Eng. yester- is also related (cf. Ger. gestern).
>
> Piotr

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By the way, we may add also: <drithë> 'cereals; bread grains' from
*g^hrezd(h)- 'barley, grain'; <dardhë> 'pear' from *g^hord-,
according to Pokorny and Cimohowski, present also in tribal name
Dardanatae or Dardanoi, <dimër> 'winter' from *g^heim- 'id.'

Konushevci