Genetic Descent/Haitian Creole

Brian M. Scott bmscott at stratos.net
Wed Jul 4 20:02:41 UTC 2001


On 30 Jun 2001, at 22:21, Gabor Sandi wrote:

> But are you sure that the two Hungarian words that have pretty
> much infiltrated all European languages (kocsi & husza'r, cf Eng.
> coach and hussar) have not entered Albanian? Not having a proper
> Albanian dictionary in my home, I cannot check up on this.

For no good reason I have an old Albanian-Italian dictionary to hand.
It has <koçi> (<koc,i>) 'carro, carrozza, vettura' and what appears to
be a variant, <kóçë> (<ko'c,e">) with the same gloss.  I saw no
obvious candidate for <huszár> (<husza'r>).

Brian M. Scott



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