29-12-03 19:11, tgpedersen wrote:
> Thanks, but you didn't answer the question: Why "must've"? Could the
> word not be older, since there is already one supposedly Albanian-
> substrate word in the area?
Well, "vatra" is not an isolated wanderwort but part of a whole package
of words that the migrating Daco-Romanians took with them wherever they
went. Other typical Polish examples from the same (Carpathian) area
include such items as <bryndza> 'sheep cheese' (<-- Rom. brânzã),
<Magura> 'hill' (in placenames <-- Rom. mãgurã), and <redyk> 'sheep
drove' (<-- Rom. ridica 'raise, collect, assemble').
Piotr