Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> No, satemisation sometimes fails in Slavic, but in
> order to get from
> *ek^wo- to <kos'-> you'd have to propose the
> following ARBITRARY
> developments:
>
> (1) satemisation fails and we get *ekv- rather than
> *esv-

*****GK: What about a simpler route:
1. The "summons cry" emerges as "kos'" at a time when
the term for "horse" for the population in question is
still "ekwos". It doesn't seem far fetched to suppose
that a cry is simplified in this way.
2. This "cry" is maintained even as the other language
shifts occur.[analogy: the mysterious "tsur (tobi)
pek" expression in Ukr. I don't know if it exists in
other Slavic languages. It may. You tell me]
3. This cry remains in the vocabulary of some groups
(but is lost in that of others) and eventually
produces some derivatives based on "kos'"*****

> Piotr
>
>
>
> --- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...>
> wrote:
>
>
> > *****GK: My
> > question: Are you [MCV] saying that "satemization"

works

> > universally and absolutely in languages affected
> by
> > it, and that there are no examples in these
> languages
> > of words which escaped the process?****
>
>
>

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