Re: [tied] Yers

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:31:40 +0000, fortuna11111 <fortuna11111@...>
wrote:

>I am sure about the question marks on the etymology of the word
>in Pokorny. I will look it up again. The question was not about
>the PIE form. The problem is the AzU looks very unusual
>compared with the forms in most Slavic languages. From what I
>got from Pokorny, the development of the sounds is hard to
>explain historically. I did not need a PIE reconstruct of the word.

Pokorny's IEW was written before the discovery of Winter's Law, which
states that the PIE consonants *b, *d, *g/*gW and *g^ (and *not* *bh, *dh,
*gh, *gWh, *g^h) cause lengthening of a preceding vowel in Baltic and
Slavic. Therefore, PIE *h1eg^ gives Proto-Slavic *e:zU ~ *e:z, and then
*(j)azU ~ *(j)a, with the normal development of initial *e:-.

>...there is a word
>gargara in Bulgarian, which means something similar. "Prjavja
>si gargara" means when you have a sore throat you take some
>water with salt or something else in your mouth and then exhale
>against it (which gives out a gurgling sound of a sorts).

That's "hacer gárgaras" in Spanish.

>Other examples: (non-Slavic / Slavic)
>
>pita - hljab "bread"

That's of course the pita ~ pizza word.

> koleda "Christmas"

From Latin calenda (cf. Polish kole~da "Xmas song").


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