From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 61641
Date: 2008-11-15
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Russian ovin
>
> On 2008-11-14 20:09, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
>> > How do we explain that Russian Ovin "cereal drying
>> > shed" does not have
>> > an initial j- yod as should be expected ?
>> > It seems Baltic and other Slavic languages have the
>> > expectec j-.
>> > Is it from *yewo "cereal" ?
>> >
>> > A.
>
> As for the structure of *ovinU, I'd reconstruct *jewi-h3n-o-, with the
> Hoffmann element, which frequently appears in derivatives meaning 'the
> place for keeping/storing X'.
>
> Piotr
>
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Thank you very much, M. Gasiorowski,
This is the kind of explanations I was looking for.
Arnaud