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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
> wrote:
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> PIE *gwrh2-i (weak-grade of *gwerh2- mountain') > [gw>g] > *grh2-i
> [rh2>ru] > PAlb *gru-i (> Rom. grui) > [Cru/not-stressed > Cur (in
> fact is more general than this] PAlb *gur-i > Alb gur(ë)
>
> Marius
>
>
> P>S> Abdullah, I think that I'm the first that said this, so now is
> the right moment to come back with a virulent critic here....:)
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Dear Marius,
I have written about the outcome of -*r.H1-/-*l.H1- in Albanian, so
just dig deeper and, if for you Watkins' etymology is not plausible,
what the hell I have to said more for myself.
About Place name Giridava I could say that exists also Illyrian Gir-
ona 'mountain', that has as outcome in Sl. Zir-ona (. zf. Zenta > Zeta
from Genta etc.), later calqued in D&rvenik. You may find references
also in Internet.
Maybe Piotr will back you up again and you will be satisfied, despite
the fact noticed by Cimochowski that *wel-no and *kWel-no are proto-
form of Alb. <vjell> and <sjell>, that in times of Greek and Latin
loans in Albanian they have probably form *velo, respectivly *c^elo.
Konushevci