Pa ja nisam lingvista. Još u nijednom istoriografskom radu koji je spominjao Balšiće nisam našao nikakvo drugo objašnjenje u vezi njihovog prezimena (imena) sem ovo koje sam ti postavio - još niđe nisam našao da je ijedan ozbiljan (ili neozbiljan) istoričar porekao da njihovo ime nije romanske osnove? Istoričari se jedino nisu složili da li su oni bili vlaškog, arbanaškog, francuskog porijekla ili srpskog porijekla - romansku osnovu njihovog prezimena niko nije do sada doveo u pitanje (koliko ja znam)?
Ivan Stepanovich Yastrebov (1839-1894), Russian Consul in Shkoder and Prizren, when speaking of the Balšići,
connect their name to the Roman town of Balletium (Baleč) located near modern Shkodër. According to
Čedomilj Mijatović (1842-1934), the Balšić family had ultimate
origin in the House of Baux from Provence (south eastern France); From that family sprung
an Italian family (del Balzo), and from them the Balšići, and from them a Romanian family. The La Zedda e la dinastia dei Balšidi: studi storici documentati (1899) by Giuseppe Gelcich, is the first work to theorize on the origin of the Balšići. They have been considered Vlach, Albanian, Serbian, or French origin.
A theory asserting them as descendants of the Frankish nobleman Bertrand III of Baux, a companion of Charles d'Anjou is regarded as highly improbable.In historical discourse Croatian ethnologist
Milan Šufflay believed that they ultimately were of
Aromanian origin, while German
linguist Gustav Weigand supported a
mixed Albanian-Aromanian origin after he noted that their family name was included in a list of early Albanian surnames in Romania.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balšić_noble_family
Izvinjavam se, zaboravio sam da stavim referencu skena:
Sima Ćirković, "Albanci u ogledalu južnoslovenskih izvora", Naučni skupovi, Odeljenje istorijskih nauka, Knjiga 10, "Iliri i Albanci", SANU, Beograd, 1988.
