Re: "stump," "stub," "shortened," "stunted," "blunt"

>Pardon! About Alb curr m, pl curra I owe you some explanation.
>Jokl thinks that we have to deal with a loan from Hebrew Sor 'rock';
>Barich reconstruct it as *k'rno-, so similar to my view, cognate
>with OIr carn; Çabej to Arm sur 'sword', Goth hairus etc.
>(Orel, AED, pp. 48.)

Btw: last time I forgot to ask: Albanian <c> is pronounced [tz]?
(I assume that <ç> is read [c^], isn't it?)

>Curiously Arabic has saqat 'invalid, cripple',
>entered in Balkan languages via Turkish as sakat.

In which of them? Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian?

>You have right, but this is old form I found on Meyer and Çabej.

It's a mistake made by them (perhaps they both thought of
Polish <cz>).

George