Re: Albanian "f"

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

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> > ************
> > All I can say is that Alb. <i aftë> and Rom. <apt> 'id.' are

probably

> > from Latin <aptus> 'id.'. Stuart Mann see it only related to Latin
> > <aptus>. The evolution of cluster /pt/>/ft/ was noticed also in

place

> > name Groftat < Crypta.
> > About <afër> 'near' I accept Çabej's etymology a- privative suffix
> > from PIE *n.- and <far> 'far' < 'not far, near' and I doubt that

it

> > is connected to Romanian apro-.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
> OK, we have for sure pt > ft.
> far= ?
> I hope you are not meaning here Albanian "fare"= nothing, absolutely
> nothing ( see Rom. "fãrã"= without)
> Can you be a bitmore explicitely regarding this "far"?
>
> Alex

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Sorry, I forggot to add explanation in Latin <far> 'large'. English
<far> Alb. <far> or Lat. <large>. So, afër < *n.-far 'not far, near'.

Konushevci