Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> ERENIK, river name in Kosova. According to my view, it is of Celtic
> origin < *aire `strong river', through regular evolution of PIE
> diphthong /*ai/ > /e/ (cf. *baita `goat skin' > Alb. petk (Buzuku,
> petëk `clothes', *aig^- > edh `goat kid', etc.). I am not sure about
> other river names, extended in /s/ or /z/: Ersekë and Erzen in
> Albania.
>
> Regards,
> Konushevci
Somehow is a hotchpotch here. One looks and has the feeling there is no
way to find the way around anymore. What I mean here with?:
Alb. "edh" should derive from PIE *aig^- but Rom. "ied, iezi" should
derive from Latin "haedus". Of course there shouldn't be any connection
between Latin "haedus" and *aig^- since Latin should derive from a
certain *ghaidos because there is the Germanic cognate( nothing else as
the Germanic). It seems very unlike that the IE languages does not share
a common word for a such important word in the pastoral life as the
"haedus" is. I don't make any assumptions here because that will mean a
loan into Germanic and Latin of this word from a language where g^ > d
(see the (g)haid- versus (h)aig^-))
for "(h)aig^- I assume there was in fact a *ghaig^- if the word can be
interpreted semantic to "little beeing" as the PIE "me:lo" (Pok
#1272).
About *baita > petk Vinereanu supposed the same etymology of *baita >
petec since he suppose that the diphtong "ai" monoftongued to "e";
curious, the latin "ae" ( PIE "ai") later monoftongued to "e" to in Rom.
Alex