Re: [tied] Re: the bee

On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:42:14 +0200, alex_lycos <altamix@...>
wrote:

>Hmmm.. I have a question regarding Slavic "nevolja".
>the word in Rom. is the same as in Albanian , meaning "nevoie"= need.
>There are tough the following words:
>nevolnic, nevolnicie, but too nevoiash, nevoit.
>I ask myself if the words whithout "l" are from Slavic or not since
>there it seems to be a construct like:
>ne+voie.
>Voie= wish. DEX gives "voie"= frm slavic "volja"
>In the same time, DEX gives "nevolnic" from slavic "nevolinU" or "ne" +"
>volnic".
>There is also the word "volnic" in Rom. which is from slavic " volinU".

volInikU -> vol'nik

>So, there are two posiblities:

There's only one. All these words are from Slavic. Palatalized /l^/
was borrowed as plain /l/ before a consonant (volnic), as /l^/ > /y/
between vowels.


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