Re: [tied] *aisk- 'bright, shining'

Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> Looking about any connection of the Illyrian and the Albanian
> languages, I find interesting the word *aiska: `bright, shining'
> (Pokorny, 16-17), that seems yields Albanian <eshk�> `amadou,
> touchwood' from *aiska: < *H2eisk-eH2, used almost in syntagm <eshk�
> e unur/uror> `touchwood and steel - a piece of stone hard like steel,
> through which the touchwood sparkles' and Alb. verb <rreshk> `to
> brown under the sun, heat', deverbativ <rreshkatore> `toast', as e
> prefixed verb rr-eshk.
> *ai > e and *sk > shk, as a: > � (at the end of the words) are
> regular outcomes in Albanian.
> Cogantes are OlChSl. <iskra> `spark', <jasan> `clear', lit.
> is^kus `clear', etc.
> According to Miklosich, Meyer, Meyer-L�bke, Haarmann and Orel it is
> borrowed from Lat. e:sca that I guess is hard to be believed.
>
> Konushevci

what does speak against Latin e:sca here?

Alex