Re: Albanian nose

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> [AK]
> I didn't read, for I didn't have Huld's "Basic Albanian Etymologies"
> (if someone has it, please help us), but, according to Orel's
> dictionary, I was not the only one that try ro derive Alb. <hundë>
> from PIE *neu-ks. I am not aware did he mentions dublets by
> inversion, like this one, but this is common phenomenon in IE
> languages: Greek Python and Typhon, mythical monsters, are both
> derived from *dheubh-.

No. _Python_ drives from *bHeudH 'perceive', as in the **oracle** at
Delphi, with which the _Python_ was associated. Another derivative is
'buddha', originally meaning 'enlightened'.

Richard.