Re: Albanian valle 'circular dance' - Proto-Albanian form?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3"
<alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:

>
>
> Hello Abdullah,
> I think that Alb. <valle> 'circular dance' and Romanian
> <hora> 'id.' is one and the same word having a Proto Albanian
> (Dacian?) form a PAlb. *walwo:-/*walo:- (I'm not sure of it, from
> here my question on Cybalist) from Pokorny root PIE *uel-7 'to

round'.

>
> Bulgarian 'horo' cannot be considered as source of

Romanian 'hora',

> because the root 'uel-7' is obvious for Rom. 'hora'

either 'circular

> dance' (see at http://dexonline.ro/search.php?cuv=hora&source=),

and

> Albanian form is also compatible (in fact is exactly the same

related

> to its meaning with the Romanian one).

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I think that Bulg. <horo> and Rom. <hora> are Greek loans from <ho
khoros> 'dance', so I can't see any problem about its origin.

Konushevci