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   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?   
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   > 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.   
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   >> 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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   in England until 1987.   
      
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