Re: [tied] Re: slavic "dalto"

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 20740
Date: 2003-04-03

> BTW, is *dolja a valid PSl. reconstruction? Isn't the word a
> rather recent loan from Lithuanian (<dalia, dalis> from
> <dalyti>) into East Slavic and Polish?

How would you account for OCS (not RCS) <odole^ti> 'to get the upper
hand, prevail over' < *'to get one's share' (and its Serbo-Croatian,
Slovenian and Old Czech counterparts) then? Doesn't it look like a
desubstantive?

Sergei