Re: Finishing Crystal

On 2025-01-02 21:53:52 +0000, Ross Clark said:

On 1/01/2025 2:21 p.m., HenHanna wrote:

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 "Vitin e ri!" -------- Do lots of Ling-buffs know this lang, or phrase?

 I couldn't say. It's Albanian, the first item on the 50-language list.
The meager Albanian language resources within a 1m range of my keyboard tell me that _vit_ means 'year' and _(i) ri_ means 'new'.

Google Translate recognizes it as Albanian -- pretty good for such a short piece of text with no give-away letters like ë in it.

 

is this Vitin  cognate with French  venir ?

 No. According to Buck 1940 there's a PIE *wet(es)- which gives us:
Greek (w)etos  'year'
Sanskrit vatsa-  'calf (yearling)'
tri-vatsa-  'three years old'
Albanian vjet  'year'
and might be connected with Latin vetus 'old'.
Watkins 2000 adds English wether  (Germanic *wethruz) and Latin vitulus 'calf, yearling'.

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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.