Re: Gland

>I guess that Alb. <glëndërë/gâner/gjëndër>
>'gland', Alb. <lenë/lende> 'acorn', also
><landë/lëndë> 'wood, matter, timber' substance',
>Rom. <ghindã> 'acorn' all points out to PIE *lendh-
>'open land, land, linden' and, maybe, to compound
>*o:g-*lendh 'the fruit of land/wood' through reduction
>of frist element of compound to /g/.

G-L > Rum. g' out of *ooglendh is far-fetched and
walks, etymologically, on stilts, in comparison with
the Lat. G-L > Rum. g', that form a specific category,
fits semantically, too, and has vigorous kinship
throughout Romania (I mean the territory of Romance
languages).

NB: in some European languages, for glans penis they
use the word "acorn" (e.g. in German and Hungarian).

>Konushevci

George