From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42369
Date: 2005-12-02
> excuse me but this is mostly wrong derived. The Rom. "cal",Please don't flog this dead caballus on Cybalist -- it is against the rule.
> Alb. "kalë" are not derived from Latin caballus but they are cognate
> with Latin "celeres" and with Greek "keles".
> The word "pãmânt" could very well derive from "pigmentum" thus
> the "pavimentum" appears more as "wished" latinom, "cot" can derive
> from "cubitus" but there is no evidence for lost of "b". The
> derivation here can be "cubitus" > "cuwEtus" > "cuEtus" > "cuãtus"
> where "uã" _can_ give "o" due the opening of "u" due next "ã".
> From all examples I studied, the only one word which appears to
> confirm that "b" intervocalic dropped is the word "ierta" presumed to
> derive from Latin "libertare" since until now by myself I could not
> find something else to derive this word from.
> This subject can be found discussed very large here:
>
> Part I http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanika/message/874
> Part II http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanika/message/877
> Part III http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanika/message/880
> Part IV http://groups.yahoo.com/group/balkanika/message/887