Re: alb.

From: Alvin Ekmekciu
Message: 46887
Date: 2007-01-05

Could there be any connection between Alb. <tru> and Alb. <torua>
'scar, impression' like in <humb toruan> 'become confused, lose one's
head'.

Regards
Alvin


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Alvin Ekmekciu" <a96_aeu@> wrote:
> >
> > Hello !
> >
> > Is there any etymology for Albanian <tru>, brain ?
> >
> > Alvin
> ************
> Alb. <tru> ‘brain’ is left without any further explanation about its
> etymology in “Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Albanesischen Sprache”
> (1891) by Gustav Meyer, who notes that best form is <truja> and
> <truri>, Gheg <trû>, <trûja>, plural <trutë> ‘brains’. He has
> mentioned also Kavalioti’s usage for ‘marrow’ and De Rada’s usage for
> ‘mind’. (pp. 438.).
> I think that Alb. <trûni/truri> is originally a n-stem noun, like
> <drûni/druri> ‘tree’ with collective form <truja>, like <druja> from
> *druwa:.
> Being a taboo word, it has no common form in different IE languages
> (cf. Lat. cerebrum, Greek to mialo, ho enkephalos, Slavic mozak,
> English brain, German Hirn etc.).
> Albanian form <tru> has many compounds: tru-hollë ‘very smart;
> literally with thin brain’, <tru-trashë> ‘very stupid; literally with
> fat brain’, <tru-tharë> ‘lame-brained; literally with dried brain’,
> <tru-rrjedhur> ‘idiot, senile; literally with flowed brain’,
> <tru-dalë> ‘brainless/stupid’ etc. Even more, in accordance with word
> <mendje> ‘mind’, <tru-femër> ‘very creative; literally with female
> brain’ and <tru-mashkull> ‘very ignorant; literally with male brain’.
> Etymologically speaking, Albanian <tru> ‘brain’ is hard to be seen as
> a simple word. I think it’s from t-ru, where t- is a prefix like in:
> t-eh, t-ah, t-rim, t-ban etc. So, -ru is a bound morpheme and I guess
> that it could be from suffixed zero-grade form *r.H1-nu of the root
> *re:(i)- ‘to reason, count’ or from zero-grade form *ruH- of the root
> *reuH- 'to smash, knock down': Norvegian rugga 'coverlet', cf. cerebrum.
>
> Any help?
>
> Konushevci
>