From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 48996
Date: 2007-06-14
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> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> <akonushevci@> wrote:
> >
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
> > <akonushevci@> wrote:
> > >
> > > --- 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