[tied] Re: Albanian valle 'circular dance' - Proto-Albanian form?

From: Richard Wordingham
Message: 35261
Date: 2004-12-02

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> Richard Wordingham wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
> >> What should speak against Greek "xorós, xorevo" form the
> > linguistic logic
> >> here? Apparently that:
> >> - the stress which in Rom. is on "o" (hórã) and in Alb. too
on "a" in
> >> "vállë", thus different form Greek.
> >
> > How natural would a Romanian *horá be? It seems rather unusual
to
> > me, but I don't have a feel for the language.
>
> it is feelt as "autochtoneus" but, regardless its origin, this
does not say
> anything since everyone feels such words as "autochtoneus" if the
words are
> very old into language. Do you think any German thinks
that "mauer" is a
> Latin word? No, if one asks, every native speaker will sustain
strongly and
> of course eroneusly, that is an "urdeutsches" word.

You missed my point. You're saying that _hórã_ has a different
stress to the Greek. My question is, effectively, how long would
the different stress *horá* last in Romanian? I'm looking for
answers like 'not long'or 'indefinitely'.

Richard.