Re: Hamp on Alb.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:

>
> --- 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 since they aren't contained in the dictionary (except an outdated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
> >
>
> George, you are 'out of page' here...
>
> Did you read Rosetti (ILR II) ? If not I posted a link here with
> that page ....
>
> Did you read (or at least you should know about it) : Psaltirea
> Scheianã? That word is attested there for the first time...
>
> The fact that you don't know it, doesn't mean that it doesn't
> exist...or that is 'very very regional'...
>
> Marius
>

And the fact that this word exist in Romanian, Aromanian, and
Megleno-Romanian plus in Albanian too and not only there (see Greek
South Slavic etc..) etc...'usually' give us 'a hint' that such a
word 'wasn't a regionalism'

Marius