Re: Hick

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...> wrote:

> Proto-Slavic *xolpU "slave", "servant", "service man" etc in:
> Etimologic^eskij slovar' slav'anskix jazykov (Vol. 8. Moscow, 1981)
>
> http://essja.narod.ru/pg/08/f062-063.htm
> http://essja.narod.ru/pg/08/f064-065.htm
> (together with *xol-kU and *xol-stU from *xol- < *skol- "to cut"(?)
> in the meaning "castrated [slave]")

Trubac^ëv himself advocates the meaning 'having one's hair cut short',
allegedly often designating young human beings or creatures in general
(cf. one of the meanings of *xoliti: 'cut short').

Sergei