From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 42850
Date: 2006-01-09
----- Original Message -----
From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <akonushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Four *del-('s)
> Dear Sean,
>
> Dispite your unhidden odium against Albanian language, like of many
> others,
> a colleague I must correct your, for. en-dolekhe:s is derived from
> causative
> of the verb *del-, as well as Lat. indulgeo, both from *en-dolgh-eyo
> (o-vocalism and suffix -eyo exactly testify about it): See: Pokorny, EW,
> pp.
> 197.
>
> Konushevci
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Patrick:
I certainly hope you are wrong, Abdullah.
There is certainly no place on any linguistic list for anyone who has a
prejudice against any language.
But what in Heaven's name could motivate such an attitude?
Albanian is complicated but really quite interesting.
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