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Vladimir orel albanian etymological dictionary

Albanian O IM IR ??í ?? i U --------- ------ ?? ? CALBANIAN ETY M OLOGICAL D ICTIO NA RY CALBANIAN ETYMOLOGICAL DICTIONARY BY VLADIMIR OREL ' ' BRILL LEIDEN ? BOSTON ? K? LN CTo my beloved Natasha CCONTENTS Preface ix Introduction xv List o f references xxiii Abbreviations for languages and dialects x l i Dictionary Indices CPREFACE The present Dictionary results from twenty years of my work in the ?eld of Albanian etymology A considerable number of my etymologi cal studies were published as a series of articles on Balkan etymologies Since I have been accumulating material for a comprehensive etymological dictionary of the Albanian language corresponding to con temporary standards applied to the works of this genre The present Dictionary is based on works of my predecessors G U S TAV M EY ER and H? REM Ç a b e j authors of earlier Albanian etymologi cal dictionaries Ç A B E J ? s work unfortunately remained un ?nished as well as on studies of other outstanding scholars such as N O RB ER T JO KL M a x V a s M ER and E R IC H a m p At the same time dozens of words in my Dictionary have received new explanations suggested here for the ?rst time or already mentioned in one of my Balkan etymologies or oth er publications The Dictionary is based on a certain view of the prehistory of Alban ian It is a purely etymological work hence its lack of interest in early Albanian texts unless their data are occasionally of crucial etymologi cal importance As far as the inherited vocabulary is concerned the Dictionary deals with three main stages in the development of the Albanian lexicon Indo-European Proto-Albanian and contemporary Albanian While Indo-European in the framework of this book is treat ed as reconstructed for the latest period of its existence immediately preceding its disintegration and the appearance of the ancient IndoEuropean languages particularly as far as the phonetic history is con cerned where I follow mainly B r u g M A N N ? s reconstruction with cer tain minor changes such as laryngeals Proto-Albanian language and reconstruction are relatively new concepts developed in my earlier pub lications They denote a stage of development between Indo-European and contemporary Albanian immediately preceding the intensive lin guistic contacts with Latin i e before the I - II centuries C E Thus Proto-Albanian may be functionally compared to the notion of Late Proto-Slavic in modern Slavic linguistics The following period from II century to VII century remains unnamed in the present work I used a rather clumsy term Early Albanian in my Russian articles but its main developments can be described in terms of the Proto-Albanian sit uation changed by Romance and Slavic lexical and phonetic in uences CX PREFACE As to contemporary Albanian this period starts with the language attested in the earliest written documents of the Albanian culture Proto-Albanian as demonstrated by