Re: [tied] Re: Vilga

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42606
Date: 2005-12-22

Aigius wrote:

> I wanted to show that diphthongs are common in Baltic and
> uncommon in Slavic. So, it is more possible
> VIL~KAS > VOLK, or VIL~KO > VOL~KO > VOLK than VO~LOK > VOLK .

What???? The PSl. form of the 'wolf' word was *vIlkU, from still older
Balto-Slavic *wilka-s (also the ancestor of the Lithuanian word); that
in turn comes from PIE *wl.kWo-s. <volk> is Russian, not common Slavic,
and its /ol/ reflects the Proto-Slavic "diphthong" *Il (which was
anything _but_ uncommon). The sequence developed in different ways in
different Slavic languages, e.g. Cz. vlk (with syllabic [l.]), Pol.
wilk, Serb./Cr. vuk, OCS vlIkU.

Piotr