Re: [tied] Slavic *sorka (was: Satem and desatemisation (was: Alban

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Mate Kapovic" <mkapovic@...>
wrote:

> > However, I do think the matter is decided by sorrë 'blackbird'

which

> > must be connected with Skt. kr.s.n.a- 'black', thus reflecting
> > *kWe:rsna:. The Slavic forms (Russ. soróka, SCr. svraka) must be
> > loanwords then.
>
> Where from? Slavic *sórka agrees fully with Lithuanian s^árka (in

accent

> also) an would poin to PIE *k'orHkeh2 akin to Greek kóraks, Latin

corni:x

> etc.

From an unattested language closely related to, if not identical
with, a prestage of Albanian. The genuinely Balto-Slavic material is
as in *c^IrnU 'black', OPruss. kirsnan. The rounded palatal
reflecting the palatalized labiovelar gives it away. The borrowing
occurred before the dissolution of the Balto-Slavic unity, so the
loanword is preserved in both branches.

Jens