Re: [tied] Some new etymologies

On 2006-06-07 15:50, Abdullah Konushevci wrote:

> And this number of formal problems are?! Would you, please, be so kind,
> to explain to me and to others which are these Latin/Romance loans in
> Albanian?

*i > e and *-sk- > -shk- are both problematic. The loans in question are
of course peshk, peshkoj, peshkatar (cf. It. pesco, pescare, pescatore).
I thought I made that clear.

>> You are confusing factors with factories. Cf. Lat. (forum)
>> pisca:to:rium
>> 'fish-market'. It just isn't the same word.
>
> For sure, your are mixing the NP with copound word or maybe you have at
> hand any use in NP of these Albanian suffixed words.

Sorry, I don't follow. Lat. pisca:to:rium is not a compound, and it
means 'fish-market' also on its own, without <forum>.

Piotr