Re: [tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

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From: Sergejus Tarasovas

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2001 1:25 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Slavic peoples and places

--- In cybalist@......, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@......> wrote:
> > I wonder. Polish has never had any sort of g-lenition, and yet we
have <ga,sienica>. It seems that both variants have existed since a
very early time. *go~sen- may be due to folk-etymology ("goose-neck
worm").
>

> [Sergei:] ...if not just a borrowing from (or developed under the influence of) the East Slavs.

 

I don't think so. The nasal vowel practically guarantees that the word is native West Slavic. East Slavic influence would surely produce an initial <gu-> or <hu->.

 

Piotr