From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 28955
Date: 2003-12-30
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From: "g" <george.st@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 2:50 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: I Novgorod Chronicle
> On Tue, Dec 30, 2003, at 01:32 PM, Mate wrote:
>
> > You obviously failed to see my message with examples of #krV- in
> > Russian
> > which are quite normal. *CorC > *CoroC in East Slavic does not mean
> > that
> > there is no possible Cro- root in Slavic. There are *many*.
>
> I was referring to something else: namely to cases
> where *Eastern* Slavs (esp. Russians) seem (at least
> to me) to prefer such additional vowels, whereas South
> and Western Slavs don't need them.
Slavic *kro- stays kro- everywhere. Even in East Slavic. But Slavic *korC-
becomes kraC- in South Slavic, kroC- in Polish and koroC- in Russian. This
is the case in Cro grad - Russ gorod you mentioned.
Mate