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User:Catonif/connections

Unsourced semantical and etymological connections that arose thanks to the project being very connected. Regional Italian scopiglio / scopillo and Albanian shqopë, both “heather” and both ultimately from Latin scōpa (“broom, yarrow”). Only two descendants that maintain one of the original meanings of the Latin etymon. Sicilian pisciuni (literally “big fish”), Sardinian pische de sa camba (literally “fish of the leg”) and Moroccan Arabic حوتة الرجل (ḥūtat er-rjal, literally “fish of the leg”), all “calf”. “hundred dollars” not containing the stem of “hundred” in Romanesco Italian piotta, Cantonese 水 (seoi2) and American English Benjamin. Spanish trompo and Ancient Greek στρόμβος (strómbos), both “spinning top”. A pre-PIE root *(s)trómP-o- is reconstructible, and archeological evidence shows that spinning tops are very old. The Spanish word is claimed to be from trompa (“snout”), but that seems semantically difficult, while the Greek one is admitted to be from a pre-Greek substrate. “place where the ceiling of a mine is precarious” in British English cauldron bottom / cauldron arse and Sicilian campanaru. “born to old parents, significantly later than his siblings” noun/adj Maltese ġild, Danish efternøler, Hungarian kései, Albanian kërthi Sanskrit अनुज (anuja), Thai อนุชา (à-nú-chaa) ? on the other hand Latin agnatus, Old English siþboren, Middle French puisné, English laterborn, afterborn likely have a quite different usage what about Latin chordus, Finnish myöhäsyntyinen Italian dialects and Osco-Umbrian: Calabrian morfu / murfusu, Lucanian fafa / fafodda, Apulian menì. Tosk Albanian vapë (“sultriness”) and Italian afa (“sultriness”), both of unclear origin, and both regularly reconstructible to a form *āpʰā. The Albanian shift of *ā- > *ō- > T. va- ~ G. vo- is well known, cf. vatër. For the aspirated pʰ, early Paleo-Balkan languages likely aspirated their voiceless occlusives much more than modern Albanian does, cf. Greek loans lakër, lëpjetë, mokër ultimately loosing the aspiration. Cf. also the Illyrian king called Gentius by the Romans and Γένθιος by the Greeks.