Albanian thikë 'knife'
In the volume of essays Languages and Areas: Studies presented to George V. Bobrinskoy (Chicago 1967) 66--9, I struggled to find cognates and an Inda-European background for the obviously inherited Albanian thike, which is the ordinary word for a knife. I was exploring, without finding anything any...
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University of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)
1993-12-01
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| Series: | Linguistica |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/4306 |
| Summary: | In the volume of essays Languages and Areas: Studies presented to George V. Bobrinskoy (Chicago 1967) 66--9, I struggled to find cognates and an Inda-European background for the obviously inherited Albanian thike, which is the ordinary word for a knife. I was exploring, without finding anything anything conclusive, the possibili ties of Indo-Iranian. It seemed to me then, and it still does, that lndo-Iranian assures us of an etymon *kika. 'sand, ravel'; I preferred then, in consideration of śitá- = Lat. catus etc., to trace this to *kǝ-kā., a zero-grade of*kō- (= *k'eH -), rather than to *ki-kā. I further discussed the problems and limitations of the Albanian vocalism and of a suffix in -k-.
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| ISSN: | 0024-3922 2350-420X |