Re: [tied] kuningas <-> knyaz

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 8152
Date: 2001-07-29

--- In cybalist@..., "João S. Lopes Filho" <jodan99@...> wrote:

> Germanic kuningaz gave origin to Slavic kunezi and Lithuanian kuningas.

Actually, the Proto-Slabic form is *kUne,ZI. As for the Baltic forms, Lith.=
ku`nigas (-ig-, not *-ing-), Latv. ku`ngs, Pruss. konagis (<*ku`negIs<*ku`n=
egas) are not Proto-Germanisms (as the Slavic form). but rather < Middle Hig=
h German ku''nic, kunec.

Sergei