[tied] Re: Yugoslawia

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 14:56:55 +0000, "Daniel J. Milton"
> <dmilt1896@...> wrote:
>
> > The obvious source for the name of Yugoslavia is Serbo-
> >Croatian,
> >and indeed 'jug' is "south" in S.-C. It's apparently only in
> >Slavic and Albanian in I.-E., but common Slavic, so borrowing
> >Slavic ----> Albanian makes more sense than the reverse.
> > Buck says "etymology dubious". Anybody here have suggestions?
>
> Slavic *jugU or *ugU must come from *augos or *eugos/*ougos.
> The only possible connection seems to be *h2aug- in Greek
> augé: "sunshine"; Alb. agój "to dawn", agume "morning".
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...

Hmmm.. interesting. For Alb. "agume" there is Rom. "ajun" which
means "some time before", "at the begin or end of" ( ajunul serii,
ajunul bobotezei, ajunul diminetii) and which appears to do not have
anything in common semanticaly with the verb "a ajuna"
(Germ. "fasten")supposed to derive from Latin *adjunare.
The problem here is the phoneticaly non-concordance between Alb. and
Rom. at this level. The known concordance is Rom. "ju" versus
Alb. "gju-".
For instance for the meaning "ajuna" (Germ ."fasten"), there is
Alb. "agjëron" (same meaning) where I suppose a rothacism of "n"
here in Alb. from an older *agon-(?)

How should be explained Alb. "j" here if from an root as *h2aug?

Alex