Re: [tied] belo- "strong"

From: alex
Message: 38016
Date: 2005-05-23

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:
> george knysh wrote:
>
>> Plus: something I've wondered about for some time. As
>> was argued, Slavic "kobyla" may be related to Latin
>> "caballus". Is there also a relationship between Latin
>> "securis" and Ukrainian "sokyra" (= axe) ? ******
>
> Slavic *sekyra < *seku:r-a: and Lat. secu:ris are no doubt somehow
> related. The root is PIE *sek- 'cut', and the suffix -u:r-, while
> somewhat mysterious, is surely the same in both. I think I wrote some
> time ago about lexical items shared uniquely by Italic and Slavic
> (and I mentioned the 'axe' word then).

[...]
> Piotr


are there more examples of Slavic/Italic common words?

Alex




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