Re: [tied] Iranic in Slavic

From: Andrei Markine
Message: 11750
Date: 2001-12-11

What is reconstructed PIE form for rae:-/ra:y-?

Andrei

At 12/10/2001 10:19 PM +0100, Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
>How does he explain the initial *jI-? Are there any similar formations? As
>for *rajI itself, it might be Iranian as well (Avestan rae:- [ra:y-]
>'wealth, splendour', Parthian/Middle Persian ra:y 'bliss, happiness',
>cognate to Lat. re:s and Skt. ra:H/ra:y- 'wealth, property'). The Middle
>Persian semantics fits best.
>
>Piotr
>
>
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>Trubachev offers another etymology for irej-words: < *jI-rIj-I, *rIj-
>being another apophonic grade of *re^(j)- 'flow' (> *re^ka 'river',
>*re^jati 'flow') and probably *rajI 'paradise', the semantics being like
>'a place beyond a big water-body (river), where departed spirits belong to'.
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