Albanian Etymology

[Teukros]

Originally Posted by TirAlb

Sorry but i have this only in italian!

PÃ*ride
(gr. Páris/Aléxandros, lat. Paris/Alexander)

Genealogia
Figlio di Prìamo e di Ecuba, noto con la doppia nominazione di Paride e di Alessandro, il più bello fra i principi di Troia. La sua gestazione è segnata da pronostici infausti, come spesso nella tradizione relativa agli eroi antichi: Ecuba sognò di generare una fascina di legna dal cui divampare si sviluppava un incendio tale da distruggere l’intera Troia. Per questo, su consiglio degli indovini, Paride fu abbandonato alla nascita sul monte Ida, dove venne allevato da un’orsa e infine adottato da un pastore.

Im going,to translate the parts in red:

-Son of Priam and Ecuba,known with a double denomination Paris and Alexander
-Ecuba in dream saw herself generating a fagot of woods from were started a fire able to destroy troy,Thats why Paris(alexander) by following the advice of the soothsayers was abbandoned....

Actually he was given the nickname Alexander because he was brave enough to keep the thieves away from the animals he was put to protect.He kept the men away.That is the meaning of the word Alexander

[Teukros]

Originally Posted by Bes Molosi

ALEXANDER IN ALBANIAN MEANS "BORN LIKE A DREAM" .
exp: A'LE'X'ANDER :A LE KI SI ANDERR .
IS NOT SCRIVED IN THE GREEK HISTORY THAT OLYMPIA SEE IN HER DREAM ALEXANDER , HER SON , BEFORE HER PREGNANCY ?!

Which source?share it with us!

[Teukros]

Whatever you poor minded want to imply your 'linguistic game' wouldn't have been pronounced correctly in Greek.I say this because I know your propaganda says that we change the foreign names in our language just like the Persian ones.The problem for you is that this word has a meaning in Greek that is accepted from ancient times and more important the letter 'ξ' Αλέξανδρος
is a very strange Greek letter and doesn't have any equivalent pronounce in other languages so it fixes only with Greek words.

[Flipper]

Originally Posted by TirAlb

BUT!! Was Alexander the Great the very first Alexander known?

No the first famous Alexander was the King of Corinth back in the mycenaean era. Arekasadara is the written mycenaean form of Alexandra. The Luwians had a city named Aleksandaru as well.

[akritas]

Vladimir Orel ,Albanian Etymological Dictionary, 1998