Re: Some Albanian-Romanian concordances

Alex wrote:

>Hmm.. . See Rom. "lãbuS" and rom. "labã" for Latin "lepus".

lepus, leporis in connection with Rum. iepure.
but lãbuS and labã in connection with Hungarian
láb [la:b] "leg, foot"

>>>piktor - painter - pictor
>>Both form Lat. piscis 'id.' and pictor 'id.'
>
>Actually the Latin word is a loan from Greek.

Really?

>But do we not expect here an "ph" for the Greek word?

Der kleine Stowasser shows us that the verb
pingo, pinxi, pinctus is akin to Indic piçáti "schmückt,"
péças "Form, Farbe," Greek poikílos "bunt." So [p] in
all 3 PIE branches.

George