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From: Athel Cornish-Bowden <me@yahoo.com>
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On 2025-01-03 09:28:28 +0000, Athel Cornish-Bowden said:

> On 2025-01-02 21:53:52 +0000, Ross Clark said:
> 
>> On 1/01/2025 2:21 p.m., HenHanna wrote:
> 
> [ … ]
> 
>>> 
>>> "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.

If your browser didn't display it it properly, the letter is e with a 
diaeresis.
>> 
>>> 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'.


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