Re: [tied] Yers

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

> > bulg. azbuka "alphabet", a compiled word from the names of the
> > first two letters in Glagolic: azU, buki. The next two letters
> > were called vedi, glagoli. Buki is still a mystery even to me.
>
> OCS buky (gen. <bukUve>) is a loan from Germanic (same word as
> English <book>).

yes, there was a study of Bernstein, I think, who proposed a Moesian
Gothic origin for buky.

<ve^de^> and <glagolU> are Slavic words, of

> course (so are <dobro>, <jestU>, <z^ivite>, <3e^lo>, <zeml'a>,
> <iz^e>, <i>, <kako>, <l'udije>, etc.)
> can'tsee anything mysteriopuis, let alone Iranian there.

yet, the names of some of the letters are not clear, take even the
yers (er&, er&j, er') or the jat, for example. Or sha, hjar&, etc.


Regards,
Vassil

>
> Piotr