Alb erë 'wind, odor' (was: Re: *eH3k'u- 'swift; accipiter, doe, wi

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

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

wrote:

> > >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> > > <akonushevci@> wrote:
> > > >
> > 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
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> In PIE exists two roots *H1er- 'set in motion' (horizontally) and
> *H3er- 'set in motion' (vertically), but their similarity in meaning
> made them laible to confusion (Mallory-Adams, 391).
> If we start from regular verbal phrase: u çue një erë 'the wind

rose'

> then we may assume that Alb erë 'wind, odor, smell, perfume, scent,
> aroma' is derived from second theme *eH3r-eH2 of first theme *H3er-,
> so it has cognates in Latin orior 'rise', till forms in *neu-

present,

> i.e. Skt r.noti 'sets in motion', Av &r&naoti 'sets in motion', Grk
> ornu:mi 'stir up' and Arm y-arnem 'stand up' seem to have both
> meanings. Hit arta 'stands, is present, occurs' must reflect *H1er-,
> but semantically is compatible only with *H3er-
>
> Konushevci
>

Alb. erë is nothing else that the Romanian aer, finally from Latin

(see French air and English air from the same source)

Marius