Re: Some Albanian-Romanian concordances

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:

> >Danish lab "bear's paw", coll. "big hand",
>
> Coincidentally, exactly in these both contexts (the
> latter getting a somewhat pejorative connotation) is
> Romanian <laba> especially used.
>
> >and "Jeg labber dig én". And (by memory)
> >Old Irish labh "hand".
>
> So, is this word PIE or... Nostratic? :)
>

I bow to the greater linguist. Your guess first! ;-)

Torsten