Re: [tied] Hamp on Alb.

On 2006-07-05 23:10, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

> These are not strictly parallel to piscis (acc. piscem > VL pesce),
> since they involve final -ix/-ex, -icem. To tell the truth, I can't
> recall any obvious Latin loans in -scis in Albanian (what could have
> they been, by the way? fascis and proboscis/promuscis seem to be the
> only real possibilities beside piscis)...

Talking of which, we have Alb. bashkë 'together' which seems to be
cognate to <fascis> but obviously isn't a loan from Latin (cf. Aromanian
bascã 'bundle', not to be confused with its Standard Rom. homophone
meaning 'beret' <-- Fr. basque, according to DEX). This is most likely
an old Wanderwort of the Balkan area (Gk. baskioi, a Maced. word glossed
as 'bundles of dry sticks' = Lat. fasces).

Piotr