Re: bg. nvEsta

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 20506
Date: 2003-03-29

Probabley You have right, but I can't understand why You don't
accept the simple fact that Slavic nov- must be derived from much
earlest form nev-< (cf. Greek neos). At least, basic vowel of PIE
was e. And in vesti we have nothing to do with saying something new,
like we have in "news" or in novosti. Why couldn't be vesti an
aphetic form of (ne)vesti? I can't also understand why You and
others always avoid Alb. semantic cognat reja ( or much oldest form
e reja) "the new one" or probabley Yout think that Slavic are
aliens. I have just cited an authority in linguistic as Trubezkoy
and I agree completley with here view. Could You or others at least
give me just one another exmaple or cogant in other languages.
Konushevci

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 07:56:28 +0000, Abdullah Konushevci
> <akonushevci@...> wrote:
>
> >If we agree that (ne)vesti "news" and novosti "news" are
synonyms,
> >all other explanations are just nonsenses.
>
> Why should we agree to such nonsense? ve^stI is a derivative of
ve^d-
> (*woid-) "to know", and novostI of novU (*new-) "new". It's like
> saying that English "news" and English "knows" must be related.
>
>
> =======================
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
> mcv@...