Language and Law seen through 'Canon of Laberia' Greek - Albanian terminological words

• Author: Marina Kaishi
• Position: University of Tirana
• Pages: 239-242

Vol. 4 No. 1

March, 2018

ISSN 2410-3918

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Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

Language and Law seen through “Canon of Laberia”

Greek - Albanian terminological words

PhD Marina Kaishi

University of Tirana

Abstract

Law and language are linked together. If we use a direct language to express law, it will be

more understandable for the audience. If we interpret it in the right way, again the audience

will be er understand law. Moreover if we interpret it right, even the verdict will be disposed

the right way.

According to the legal terminology, we are interested to the words that Albanian language

has taken from Greek language. I am not speaking about modern times, but if we see back in

time there are a lot of similarities between Greek – Albanian terminological words or be er

say words of Greek roots. In order to give evidence about this phenomenon we will analyze or

be er try to analyze “Canon of Laberia’. There are many words deriving from Greek language

and used into the Albanian language. Why do I believe so?

Because through reading “Canon of Laberia” we will analyze its words, knowing that both are

two Balkan countries.

Keywords: judicial terminology, Greek language, Albanian language similarities, Canon.

Introduction

If we want to distinguish the best comparison between Greek and Albanian language

(according to Canon of Laberia) we will refer to Yamamoto which implies that: “Even

the ethical structure of Homeric society composed of faith, honor, friends, blood,

bread and vengeance, seems to belong to the ethical category of a society without state

authority, best represented by the canonical ethical structure”. This comparison best

suits the “Canon of Laberia’, because of its good neighborhood with Greece which

has mutual relations in the culture and life of these two countries since ancient times.

In this contest we see that Albanians and Greeks have given and received from one

another not only in terms of history, culture, but also language. Secondly, if we refer

to At Gjergj Fishta in a dignifi ed preface of Kole Leke Dukagjini which states that

“Canon comes from ancient Greek language, and then this word was widespread even

in other languages ”But what is “canon” in itself? Canon is represented as a whole of

legal norms, rules of unwri en conduct, set at di erent times and perceived in oral

tradition from generation to generation and serving to regulate legal relationships

between people in di erent areas of life, the implementation of which is traditionally

provided by the community of the local self-government unit, without state strength.

Till now we have spoken about the theoretical part, now we are going to pass to

concrete facts. Our aim is to fi nd out this words and concentrate in their etymology.

1. Kanusia-it comes from the Greek word kanusia that means “a penalty).

2. Kanosieret-it comes from the Greek word kanosier which means a person who puts