Re: Albanian vras (and Romanian rãu)

From: tolgs001
Message: 42186
Date: 2005-11-21

>Against this can be said that there is stil the word "urât" as
>adjective for "ugly" and the "u" is stil there (omu urât). Yes, it is
>still there due stress reason in a word with more as one syllable.

This is the secondary meaning and function of it. The primeval:
the past participle of the verb "to hate": <a urî> < horrere,
horrescere via a reconstructed form *horrire. Further reflexes
of the Romanian verb <a urî>: <urîcios> "antipathic; unpleasant",
<urîtor> "hater".

George