From: alex
Message: 39053
Date: 2005-07-04
> Semantically speaking, Alb. <vaj.z�>, attested dialectal formif the word is indeed cognate with Rom. "var�/v�r" then there are
> <var.z�>, as well as <va(r)sh�> is synonym of Alb. <�ik�> 'girl,
> doughter, virgin'. I don't see any difficulty in deriving it from
> *swo-rya 'relative, akin', further suffixed in plural ending -�z
> (cf. Alb. <v�lla> 'brother', pl. <v�llez�r or <njeri> 'man', pl.
> <njer�z>).
>
> Konushevci