--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen <jer@...>
wrote:
>The vacillating initial in Lat. oss, costa is like
> Slav. koza : Skt. aja-/aja:-, probably a sandhi hardening of *-
h2#h2-.
*koza and <aja-> are hardly related, since one would expect **kaza (<
*h2eg^-) with a Winternian *a which we indeed find in *(j)
azIno 'goatskin' (also probably *(j)azI 'ide (Leuciscus idus, Idus
melanotus)' if < 'goat (i. e. barbate fish)', cf. G. Bartkarpfen,
Barbe, Ziege 'Idus') in Slavic.
Sergei