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in the meantime i'd like to put another word here that i recently found: the sumerian word "temen" mens foundation. I found similarity with albanian "themel" also meaning foundations. Sumerian borrowing?

if i remember right there are a few words in common between albanian and basque language. maybe the pre albanian language was not IE. also sardinian:eni = alban enjë sardinian:alase spear grass = alban halë thorn sardinian: lothiu mud (topp: Lotzorai, Lothorgo, Loceri, Lotzeri) = alban lloç...

well mythical creatures can change their features over time :) but i don't really know, i am just supposing

what about the connection with Sardinian "jana"? it has also a masculine form which means "little man" or "dwarf". Also, is it possible that "zana" could be a compund word? "z" (maybe it can be some sort of feminine prefix) + "ana" (which can relate to "jana" and νᾶνος)

another word: Latin "murus" meaning "wall" which generated the albanian form "mur". may this word have generated also the verb "mburo" (geg form "muro") meaning "to defend" or "to cover" in albanian?

i don't say it comes from Triton, i am saying that the word Triton could have relation with it, maybe same radix. Is there any known etymology for "thras"?

Robert Elsie says that the albanian "zane" can be related to Latin "Diana". This is most interesting, we have a connection between pre-iE, Latin, Albanian, Romanian(maybe Daco Tracian ?).

well, that doesn't necessarly mean that no other dialectal form of "woman" existed. For example in albanian we use both "cupa" "cika" and "vajze" to say "girl" Another word i'd like to put in your attention is Triton, the mythical creature. from wikipedia: Triton's special attribute was a...

that is interesting. if the original meaning of the word is "old woman" as you suggest, could it be possible to make a connection to the word "gri" meaning "gray" (it should be of Germanic origin but it can be found in albanian too)? But also how can you prove that the meaning of simply "woman"...

here is a curious fact, in the old language spoken in Sardinia, the word for "fairy" was "jana"

i'd like it to be the language of the vinca :P or the proto indo european maybe

how about the word "Greek", it should come from Hesiod's "Catalogue of Women" where there is the mythical figure of Graikos. Is there any relation with Albanian "grua" "gra" meaning "woman"? Also, how do you create the radix of the words you wrote? I mean what letters do you choose to create...

ok so i can relate this to the next word: the Nahuatl word "teotl" meaning God, has no relation with Theo or Deus? also the Nahuatl word "atl" meaning water has no relation with mythological figures of Atlas (related to the hydronim of the Atlantic ocean) or the word "thalassa"?

no ok, i have nothing against Orel's etymology and i understood the evolution of the sound g in dh, because another example is gea -> dhe (earth). But my curiosity is the relation with the Ancient Egyptian word d-r-t which means hand. How can it be so similar?

Hello everyone, i created this thread because i am interested in languages and i'd like to post here some words i'd like to know and study the etymology of. I'd also like to post etymologies that i am working on here. Let me introduce myself first First of all i am interested in Albanian...