From: Rick McCallister
Message: 57929
Date: 2008-04-24
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott"Cf. is "chiefly" i.e. "take a look at", "see" --it
> <BMScott@...> wrote:
> >
> > At 5:10:19 AM on Wednesday, April 23, 2008,
> alexandru_mg3
> > wrote:
> >
> > > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M.
> Scott"
> > > <BMScott@> wrote:
> >
> > >> At 9:46:56 PM on Tuesday, April 22, 2008,
> tolgs001 wrote:
> >
> > >>>>What you will do with 'noian' 'imense waters'
> that is from
> > >>>>/uj&/ and not from Romanian 'apa'...
> >
> > >>>>You will remove it from DEX?
> >
> > >>> Whaddaheck are you insisting on this crap? It
> has nothing
> > >>> to do with uveg and uiaga.
> >
> > >> And DEX online doesn't actually say that it's
> from Albanian
> > >> <ujë>; it just says 'cf. alb. _ujanë_'.
> >
> > > and _ujanë_ is from where, Brian?
> > > => is a derivation of _ujë_ of course....
> >
> > You're missing the point again. I wasn't
> commenting on the
> > difference between <ujë> and <ujanë>; I was
> pointing out
> > that 'cf.' does not mean 'is derived from'.
> >
> > Brian
>
> Brian, if we have X-ga and X=uya ==> X-ga is derived
> from X
> ==> this is what I have said, when I said.
>
> Dex. "cf." ==> means something else: 'not a directed
> loan from
> Albanian but from the same common source' (that is
> Ok too)
>
> Please make distinction between different contexts.
>
> Marius
>