alexandru_mg3 wrote:
> a). Albanian nye <-> Romanian nuie (nuia) 'stick, rod, twig'
> (DEX considering Rom. nuia from Latin novella -> if true, we have here
> an original sequence *uwje (after e>je))
Albanian <nye> doesn't mean 'stick, rod, twig'. It means 'knot, gnarl,
node' or something that resembles these things, especially 'ankle'. A
hard lump, not a long, delicate and flexible thing. There's no chance
that any of the meanings of <nye> could have developed from the
semantics of Lat. novella 'shoot, sucker, young twig'. Actually, <nye>
comes from a different word in Latin, (<no:dus>) and is only
accidentally similar to Rom. nuie.
Piotr