From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 17350
Date: 2003-01-02
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From: <S.Tarasovas@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 11:40 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Modern Greek patronymic suffix -POULOS
> Cf. also *ajIko ~ *ajIce 'egg' and Ossetic <ajk> ~ <ajkæ> 'egg'.
I've written about it before. Since Slavic retains the base form *aje < *a:ja- (absent from Indo-Iranian) with the characteristic absence of *w, my suspicion is that we are dealing with a Slavic loan in Iranian in this case. The Scythians bought our eggs and told our ancestors how many they needed (*satá, please) :)
Piotr