Re: *aisk- 'bright, shining'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> Abdullah Konushevci wrote:
> >> Alex
> > ************
> > First of all, Latin words are borrowed in Albanian from oblique
> > cases, so take a look in Latin declination and you will see that

the

> > accent falls in different position in different cases.
> > Second, am I obliged to claim that in all Latin dictionaries you

will

> > find <e:sca, ae>.
> > Third, isn't enough word like <bollë> 'big serpent' from Lat.
> > be:lua 'beast, monster' to testify e: > o etc.
> >
> > Konushevci
>
>
>
> I have given the words so I got them as I introduced them in my

database; I

> don't recall right now which was the person who made up the

selection but he

> claimed to consider the words as in the work of Cabej and Mihaescu.
> The second one, in my dictionary, "esca" is given as you say, with

long

> "e:", thus "e:sca". There have been two words one with the

meaning "Spoeise;

> Lockspeise, Köder" which has corespondances in other IE languages.

The

> another word "e:sca" with the meaning "Feuerschwamm, Zunder" which

should be

> borrowed in MGr. "iska, uska", Alb. "eshkë" and of course,

Rom. "iascã" ,

> all with the meaning of "Zunder". This one latin word with the

meaning of

> "zunder" is not clarified , neither has it other IE cognates. The

word

> "e:sca" with the meaning "Speise, Lockspeise, Köder" is not present

neither

> in Greek, nor in Albanian nor in Romanian."
>
> Now, Alb. "bollë" is seen as congnate with Rom. "balaur" and there

has been

> NO "e:" since Rom. does not make any "e:" in "a". Simply, if

Alb. "bollë" is

> cognate with Rom. "balaur", then there is excluded any

Latin "be:lua" as

> root for this word. The protoword should have been *ball- and short

IE "a"

> yelds Alb. "o" as well, doesnt it?
>
> Alex

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No, long PIE /a:/ yields in Albanian /o/ (cf. *ma:ter > motër, *au +
*sa: > a-jo 'she', Gr. ma:khana > moken/mokër, etc.) and are Alb.
<bollë> and Rom. <balaur> cognates, I sincerely doubt about it. There
are so much guessing about these words, that I have headache, when I
think about its etymon. I find much straightforword derivation Lat.
be:lua > Alb. <bollë>.

Konushevci