Re: [tied] Re: Albanian names (2) -> Besa, Besiana ("Google 1720" t

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>
> To sum up, <besë> comes from earlier *bec^ë. Both the *e and the *c^
> can come from more than one source, but it's generally accepted that
> *besë is an abstract noun derived from the well-known root *bHendH-
> 'bind' (metaphorically, , and indeed it can be derived without the
> slightest difficulty from *bHéndH-tah2 (*-twah2 would also work; both
> suffixes form nomina actionis) > *bént(s)ta: > *bêc^ë > besë (*ê was
> a nasal vowel, which developed into <e> before a following *c^ as in
> *penkWe +
> -a: > *pêc^ë > pesë '5'). In other words, the reconstructed ancestor
> of <besë> was pronounced more or less like "bencha" (*bêc^ë) in Roman
> times. If that's similar to Bessi, I'm similar to Gandhi.

> Piotr

hmnmmm.. .. peace with us.

the word means too "to make peace for a while" to make a pactum...
the derivative "besëlidhë" means to bind and here we have a compound of
besë +lidha ( < *legh= to bind)
the derivative "besëlidhje" means Alliance

In fact it seems that "to bind" is just because of the verb *legh and
not because of "besë"

The semantic evolution appears in another light:
peace +bind= make an aliance, make alliats

thus besë is from the same root as "peace", Latin "pace" with the same
change alternance of "b" versus "p" like in the another paar discussed
earlier: Rom. pârjoalâ versus Alb. berzolle

Thus Albanian "besë" appears to derive from *pak^-
The satem aspect is hard to show here since the last wovel could have
been an "e" which will point out to an ordinary palatalisation.


Alex