Re: Albanian "f"-corr.

From: tolgs001
Message: 25689
Date: 2003-09-09

>Latin "prope" meant "near" but it does not fit with Latin
>evolution from PIE if the root is something with *prokWe
>The Latin form "appropiare" appear just beginning with

Despite all these speculations and objections, you
see that both the ancient Latin/Roman words, and that
what you find in e.g. English, <appropriate, approach...>
fits darned well to Romanian <aproape, apropiere, apropiat>,
you're still plagued by doubts as to the Latinity-
Romanceness of the term. (Only because of that "a-"
prefix. :^)

>It can be this is a simply coincidence

Yeah, coincidences galore; tantamount to inflation.

>a closer relationship between thes words should not
>'be excluded.

Sie sagen es! :^)

>Alex

George