Re: [tied] Basileus

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Andrei Markine
> Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 4:47 AM
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> At 6/7/01 09:10 PM +0200, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> >In Slavic we would get *gIm-tI- > *z^e~tI, also unattested.
>
> Are modern Russian zhat', zhmu not from *z^e~tI ? The meaning,
> however, is quite different from 'walk, move'...

I have read somwhere (probably in Chernyh's Russian etym. dictionary)
that this zhat', zhmu is rather from IE *gem-, in contrast to *gWem-.

P.S.