Re: Hamp on Alb.

>>Romanian baskã and Albanian bashkë 'fleece' I guess is different
>>word and its origin should be from *plous-keH with voicing of
>>bilabial stop due to loss of /l/: OE fle:os. See also other
>>derivatives under *pleus-, like <lesh, wool> 'hair', <push> 'flue,
>>fluf' etc.
>>Different origin has <bashkë> 'together', discussed here.
>>
>> Konushevci
>
>I doubt that <bashkë> 'together' and Albanian bashkë 'fleece'
>are 'very different' knowing that 'fleece' has as secondary
>meaning 'bundle' (see Aromanian word etc...)

Romanian <bascã> is a mere very recent (19th or 20th century)
loanword from French: <beret basque> (i.e., from the Basque
Country).

And Romanian <ba$ca> is a Turkish loanword (used as "separate;
apart from; besides").

If there are further similar words, they must be very regional,
since they aren't contained in the dictionary (except an outdated
word <ba$cã> (a Polish/German loanword) that has nothing to do
whatsoever with the mentioned Albanian homophones).

George