From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 42312
Date: 2005-11-28
On 11/28/05, alexandru_mg3 <alexandru_mg3@...> wrote:--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > So I said only that the Albanian va that could be inherited ...and
> > I'm not the first person that make this supposion....
>
> It doesn't matter how many people have said it before you. It's only
> their competence and the persuasiveness of their arguments that
matter.
> So who were they?
>
> Piotr
>
1. SPITZER -> treats va as cognate of vadum
2. JOKL -> admits the possibility of an Indo-European source of va
3. MANN -> reconstructs *wadhom
4. C^ABEJ -> follows Spitzer
Best Regards,
Marius
************I find much plausible Demiraj's etymology, even he didn't mention that *weH2dh- 'to go, march' have yielded in Alb. Geg <vojti> and Tosk <vajti> 'gone' with regular outcome of long *a: > vo-/va- like in votër/vatër < *a:ter-. Same problem appears with Alb. <i pak> 'little, small' that could be from *pauk-o or from Lat. <paucus> 'id.'Konushevci