[tied] Re: morsha

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2007-09-06 01:09, stlatos wrote:
>
> > I'd agree that whale and squalus are likely related,
>
> ... as is perhaps OPr. kalis 'sheatfish'...
>
> > but ballaena is
> > from Gk phal(l)aina (or more likely a Mac. dia. form) which is

almost

> > certainly related to ball instead.
>
> Compare, in particular, the Albanian words for 'sturgeon', Tosk

bli,

> bliri, Geg blî, blini < *bHl.no- (cf. Gmc. *Bulla(-n)- 'bull'),

which

> throws light on the structure of Gk. pHálle:, pHál(l)aina, as well

as

> pHállos (all from *bHl.-n..).
>
> Piotr
>

So Romanian balaur, Piotr, would be from *bHl-n.-wo-wr-o > Dacian
*balwaura > *ballaura > Romanian balaur, in this case ....

Thanks for the feedback,
Marius