Re: c^asU

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Abdullah Konushevci
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> > My opinion is that Alb. <kohë> 'time' can be reconstructed from
> PIE
> > *kWa:sk'aH2/kWe:sk'aH2 and could be also related to Lat. cascus
> 'old,
> > ancient' (cf. <njeri/burrë/grua në kohë> 'old man/woman'.
> >
> > Konushevci
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> For the rather uncommon 'cascus', the antique Lewis & Short
> Latin dictionary online has "[cf. 'canus']", "white-haired", which

has

> an accepted etymology < I.E. *kas-, *kas-no "grey" (Pokorny). Any
> connection between the visually obvious canities* and the abstract
> concept of time seems very unlikely.
> The L&S comment calls for some explanation of the -cus

ending of

> 'cascus'. Can anyone comment?
>
> *I scored with that word in a Scrabble game. Opponent, who

knew

> some Latin but not enough, asked "Something to do with dogs, or
> singing?"
> Dan Milton

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Dear Dan,

I believe that normal road of deriving abstract nouns, adjectives,
is from exactly concret nouns, adjectives.
In Albanian, in many contexts, <kohë> 'time' and <moshë> 'age' have
fully synonymy: njeri në moshë = njeri në kohë 'old man' or
moshatar=kohanik 'coeval', etc.

Konushevci