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Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
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Chapter 26
Some Celto-Albanian isoglosses and their implications

| University of Calabria
Çabej (1969) originally posited a small number of Albanian-Celtic-Germanic isoglosses. Apart from a more detailed discussion of besa and njerí, we highlight in greater depth the areal diffusion of the I-E diffusion of Albanoid bërrakë, e blertë, brī and dritë. We add in-depth observations on the Celto-Albanian binomial ardracht (Old Irish) – dritë (Albanoid), where the Celtic terms involved are traceable to Gaulish dercos and uodercos of texts and inscriptions. Such isoglosses are developed here and tend to substantiate Hamp’s view that the Albanoid Urheimat was originally Central-North Europe rather than its present day Mediterranean Heimat.
Keywords: Albanian, Celtic, Germanic, lexical isoglosses
Article outline
  • 1.Celto-Albanian isoglosses
  • 2.Bërrakë -a ‘bog’
  • 3. Blertë ‘greenish; verdant’
  • 4.Brī briri, Gheg brî brini ‘horn’
  • 5. Dritë –a ‘light’
  • 6.Conclusions
  • Abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Literary Works
  • References
Published online: 19 December 2018
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