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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george_st@...> wrote:

>
> >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?)

[AK]
Yes, Albanian /c/ is pronounced like ts in English oats, till /ç/,
voiceless palatal affricate, is read as /c^/, like ch in English child.

> >Curiously Arabic has saqat 'invalid, cripple',
> >entered in Balkan languages via Turkish as sakat.
>
> In which of them? Albanian, Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian?

I am sure about Albanian, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarin and Macedonian.

>
> >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

In meanwhile, I remember the other word related to curr and cung. It
is word cub 'bobtailed, with a docked tail', cub-ak 'stubble', cub-an
'wearing clothes cut short: in short pants'; cub-el 'cut-off, cut
short, shortened'; cubë 'bobtailed animal', probably related to Alb
sup 'shoulder'.

Konushevci