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Sent: Sunday,
September 01, 2002 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [tied]
Ovid
> ... we have atested the greek form of
"Kolxi" and there is a possiblity :
a)"It´s an odd sugestion, but ... how
about something like
*Xwolxis?
Xw could > Kh in
Greek or > V
"Could?" Why then did the Greeks called it
Kolkhis (<kolkHid->), not "Volchis/Bolchis"? The suggestion is odd
indeed.
> b) we have attested this name
"Kolxi" and not a supposed "must
be" *wolxU
*wolxU is not "a supposed must-be"
but a perfectly legitimate Slavic reconstruction, just like *gordU (>
hrad, grad, gorod, gród). And whereas *wolxU explains all the Slavic reflexes
(vlax-, volox-, vlox-), "kolxi" explains nothing (even if there should have been
a Colchis in the Danube Delta), since there's no way in which "Vlakh" could be
derived from it, in Slavic, Greek, Dacian or whatever.
Piotr