Re: Albanian nose

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
>
> > *neu-ks- `to smell'. 1. Alb. <hundë> `nose'
> > Konushevci
> >
>
> I prefer an etymology asserting that: <<'an Albanian nose' is 'a

PIE

> nose'>>

[AK]
And exactly this is one.

> PIE *hneh2s- 'nose' > PIE *hn.h2s-ú-nt-o/eh2 > PAlb/Dacian?

*asúnta:

> > (see gjuhë, vjehërr, kohë (despite the doubts)) > PAlb/Dacian?
> *ahúnta: > Alb. húndë

[AK]
All these etymologies, for me, are not plausible.

>
> Note: 1. For another -nt- <<nose>>-formation: see Skt. nasvaìnt-
> [adj] `nosed' (AV)
>
> 2. we cannot exclude also an -n- formation:
> PIE *hn.h2s-ú-n-eh2 > PAlb/Dacian? asúna: with probable some
> alternative unattested forms PAlb/Dacian? *násuna < PIE *hnh2és-u-

no

[AK]
And, where to leave the lack of non-rhotacized Tosk form or
rhotacism didn't act at all to this word.

> Marius

Konushevci