Re: [tied] greek phallus

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <alexmoeller@...>
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> Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 7:18 PM
> Subject: [tied] greek phallus
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> > which are the slavic cognates for the greek phallus?
> > did latin have had a similar word or was the latin one derived

from

> > another root?
>
> There is no Slavic cognate that I know of.

What if *bólna ~ *bólnI (Russ. _boloná_, _bolón'_ 'outgrowth on a
tree, cambium') are related? The acute (normally pointing to *bHolH-n-
rather than *bHol-n- < *bHel-, underlying Greek _pHállos_ < *bHl-no-
) presents a problem, but one can always evoke Metathony or something
of the kind...

Sergei