Re: [tied] slavic "za"

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

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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:04 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] slavic "za"
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> > If it was once a noun, wouldn't you expect to take the genitive,

cf

> > eg. ON til + gen., cognate of German 'Ziel' "goal"?
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> Or maybe the ablative, whose functions were taken over by the

genitive in Germanic (while some Slavic genitives are former
ablatives. An ablative form such as *g^Hoh1-od would suit me fine.

>

If you meant to write *g^Hoh1 -od I understand it: noun + (noun in
the ablative). I recall it is one of the few prepositions in Russian
that can be used doubled: iz-za "out from", which would support your
analysis of it as a noun (except the semantics then won't work).

Torsten