Re: *eH3k'u- 'swift; accipiter, doe, wind, hawk'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Alvin Ekmekciu" <a96_aeu@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
> >
> ...2. Alb. <erë> `wind'
> > from *o:k'-ro, a substantivized adjective (cf. ak'-ro, beside *ak'-u-
> > ): Sl jastreb `hawk'. (Pokorny o:k'u-s 775.)
>
> What about Alb. <erë> 'wind' deriving from any PIE word with the
> meaning "to turn" like *wert- or *werp- ?
>
> Regards
> Alvin

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About Sl jastreb 'hawk' and Alb sutë see
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/44130 and other
posts regarding this issue.

Alb erë 'wind' is usually explained from reconstructed non attested
Rom form *aira (Meyer). My view is that this basic word is inherited,
but about it later.

Konushevci