[tied] Re: Dravidian in Persia?

--- In cybalist@..., Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Sep 2001 11:25:59 -0300, "João S. Lopes Filho"
> <jodan99@...> wrote:
>
> >I have been thinking if this haya- and ji "words" can be cognates

of Russian zayats and Czech zajic "hare". Perhaps < *g^Hei-,
something like "speed animal"?

>
> Chernych's Russian et. dict. mentions a possible connection with
> *g^hai-(d)- (Gmc. goat < *gait-, Lat. haedus, as "jumping animal").
> The Slavic form goes back to *g^(h)a:j-/*g^(h)o:j-, as does Lith.
> zui~-kis < zo:j- (despite unexpected z- for z^-).

The origin of Lith. word is still disputable. It well may be an East
Slavic borrowing (with Samogitian 'grave'-ization of -*a:-, -ik- from
East Slavic -'a- in unstressed position > -I-?) or a selonianism in
Standard Lithuanian (I'd vote for this) - in the latter case *z- is
normal. Cf. also Old Russian (rare, the single occurence, if I'm not
mistaken) zajati 'jump', Lith. z^ai~sti 'play' < *g^(H)ai- :*g^(H)oi-
. Still wonder what the formant *-enk- : *-onk- would mean and where
come from in Slavic.

Sergei