Re: Hamp on Alb.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <st-george@...> wrote:

>
> >>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 since they aren't contained in the dictionary (except an outdated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

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It reminds me one Serbo-Croatian maxim: Vaška vaška ali rac^un
baška: Flea (you) flea (I) but we must pay separately.

Konushevci