Re: [tied] Ancient Greek name for Volga River

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

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> --- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
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> > > --- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@> wrote:
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> > > > It's usually connected to the Balto-Slavic root
> > > > *val?g-/*vil?g- (? for
> > > > the acute tone) 'moisture' < *w(o)lg-.
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> > > Why should anything else be needed?
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> > What "anything else"?
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> Whatever "?" is; I assume you mean a laryngeal.

I meant the Balto-Slavic acute (whatever be its specific
interpretation -- as a segmental or a suprasegmental unit), in this
case induced by *g (Winter's Law). In Balto-Slavic reconstructions
the tone (acute vs. non-acute) is distinctive and so usually marked,
even if notation varies (I used '?' as the most ASCII-friendly
variant).

Sergei