From: alex
Message: 34790
Date: 2004-10-20
> ************what does the "-shor" suffix in Albanian do? Which is its role?
> It seems that you have right about *H1or-g^h-, a verbal root, that
> derives in Hitt. <ark-/arg-> 'to cover, copulate' (pres. mediopass.
> 3rd sing. arga, part. <arkant> 'covered'.
> From this root is derived word <testicle>: nom. *H1org^his, gen.
> *H1org^h�/yos, Hitt. pl. arkiyes, Gr. �rkhis, Av. &r&zi, Arm.
> orjik', OIr. uirgge < coll. *H1org^hiya: > Alb. <herdhe>.
> Much interesting are Lituanian derivation <arzhilas> 'stallion',
> that has cognate in Alb. <harm.shor> 'id.', probably drived from
> *H1or-g^h-mo- > harm + suffix -shor, where three consonantal
> cluster /rmsh/ was reduced to /msh/.
>
> Konushevci