Re: Ktistai

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "t0lgsoo1" <guestuser.0x9357@...> wrote:

>
> >Albanische Etymologien
> >'hir,-i [hi:r] m. (selten Pl. híre,-t f.)
> >(t., g., christliche Kirchensprache) "Gunst, Gnade (Gottes);
> >Wohlwollen; Unterstützung; Anmut, Grazie; Amulett; Schönheit";
>
> (...)
>
> >hirësí f. "Hochwürden; Anmut, Grazie",
>
> From Greek hieros? (cf. hieratic, hieroglyph, hierodule; χειροτονῶ)

Not according to
Prellwitz:
Etymologisches Wörterbuch der griechischen Sprache

> >got. skeirs "klar" anknüpfte (s. auch Bugge BB 18 [1892] 167: vgl.
>
> >
> >ae. scīr "klar";
>
> schier?

Yes. And Sciri.

> >Three words have the odd distribution Romanian, Albanian, Slavic,
> >(North) Germanic, Finnic (with exceptions):
> >*śλaN- (?) "slave"
> >*tərg- (?) "market"
> >*(p)k´eN(-st)-(?) "morally/ethnically pure, clean"
>
> Which of these is Romanian?!

http://dexonline.ro/lexem/%c3%88%c2%99chiau/145157
http://dexonline.ro/definitie/t%C3%A2rg
http://dexonline.ro/definitie/cinste

> (NB: Romanian linguistics deem
> Romanian târg as an old Slavism tru^gu^.)

I know. I disagree. More likely a Dacism.


Torsten