From: Rick McCallister
Message: 50895
Date: 2007-12-14
> Writing about Albanian place-name Shkalla e Dunjas____________________________________________________________________________________
> (Watery Stair) I
> have noticed that we have to deal with prefixed form
> d-unj-as (for
> suffix as cf. Mamuras, Përrenjas, Bishkas), where
> unj- is oldest
> form of Alb ujë `water'. Same prefix I have noticed
> also in Alb
> place-name Vau i Dejës `Deja's Ford', attested form
> dain-ja, lat.
> Daigna, where d- is also prefix, as we could see
> from Ain-ona/Aen-ona.
> Same root we notice in Alb place-name Bar-aina etc.
> Having in mind that we have for nasalized zero-grade
> form of *reiH-
> `to flow, run' the form *rin- and suffixed forms
> *ril- and *rei-wo- I
> came to conclusion that Illyrian/Alb river names
> Drinus, Drilon are
> indeed prefixed form d- + ril- and d- + rin- as well
> as Drivastum
> (mod. Drisht) from d- + riv-astum. For the form
> Drilon and Drivastum
> exists also other prefixed forms K-ril-evë and
> K-riv-açë.
> Same phenomenon I have noticed in Illyrian fortess
> name Dabanos (Proc.
> De aed. IV, 4), that seems by all chances to be a
> prefixed form d- ab
> `water'-anos, attested also in Dardanian place-names
> Dabesh-ec,
> Dab-in-oc, Dab-koc and brook-name Dab-oc.
> Prefix d- in Albanian has intensifying function:
> rojë `guard', d-rojë
> `dismay, shyness', dboj `expel, banish' (cf. zboj
> `id.'), dborë
> `snow', besides borë `id.', zborës, dlir `to purify'
> from adj. i lirë
> `free', dvarr `to hurt, wound' (cf. Alb. varrë
> `wound') etc.
>
> So, to conclude: d- + root
>
> *rin- > Illyrian/Albanian river name Drinum
> *ril- > Illyrian/Albanian revers name Drilon, Drilo
> (cf. also above
> K-ril-evë)
> *rei-wo- > Illyrian/Albanian river name Drivastum
> (cf. also above
> K-riv-açë)
> *ab- > Illyrian/Albanian Dabanos (cf. also above
> Dab-anos, Dab-oc,
> Dab-inoc, Dab-koc)
> *roi-na: > Illyrian/Albanian river names Dren-ica,
> Dren-oc etc.
>
> Konushevci
>
>