Re: [tied] Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

On 2007-05-29 09:50, tgpedersen wrote:

>
>>> Russian "gusli" could only fit with the Baltic-Finnic forms if one
>>> permits a LOT of sound changes.
>> This is an inner Slavic derivative from *goNd-oN 'play music' (inf.
>> goNsti, etc.), perhaps the same root, but with a nasal infix, as in
>> Lith. gaudz^iu`, gau~sti. *goNsli is a fem.pl., the sg. being *goNslI;
>> the suffix *-slI developed in derivatives of verbs with a final
>> dental, presumably as one of the Slavic transformations of the
>> instrumental suffix *-tlo-.
>
> The same root, ie *kan-, with a nasal infix? Explain.

No, no. The same root as in Baltic *gaud-, with a nasal infix.

Piotr