Re: [tied] Sanskrit and Slavonic for "black"

IE *krsnós > Skr krs.nás, OCS c^rInU. _s._ in Sanskrit according to RUKI.
It drops in Slavic.

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On Uto, siječanj 17, 2006 11:52 pm, Anthony Appleyard reče:

> Someone on http://groups.yahoo.com/group/IndianCivilization/ pointed
> out that Sanskrit [kRSNa] = "black" looks like (e.g.) Russian
> [chernyy] = "black". He supposed that the original PIE root was
> *[kors]; but surely original Sanskrit *[krs-na] would become *[krzna]
> and then *[kr_na] or similar; is the original root *[kork]?
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