From: Arnaud Fournet
Message: 62120
Date: 2008-12-17
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From: "stlatos" <stlatos@...>
>
> Skt u:s.ará- > *u:s.rà > s.urà 'saltpeter'
>
Therefore, Kamviri z.úk 'salt' must be borrowed from Skt:
So I'd reply to:
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Zupanija (Z = "zh" or "z^") is derived from Zupan 'the
> supervisor of a Zupa (a salt mine, sometimes also a salt or
> silver depot)' -- a very important function in early Slavic
> states, as salt production was an extremely lucrative
> business, usually monopolised by the ruler. Zupan eventually
> came to mean something like 'alderman' or 'sheriff' in
> Anglo-Saxon England -- a royal official responsible for an
> administrative unit. As characteristically Iranian agent
> nouns in -pa:na- (cf. Indic -pa:- < IE *pax-) mean
> 'guardian, supervisor, protector', an Iranian connection
> used to be proposed for Zupan as well, but the idea has been
> abandoned by most scholars: the morphological division is
> after all Zup-an rather than Zu-pan. However, Zupa itself is
> a mysterious word and I'd like to see a convincing etymology
> of it myself. Slavic *Z comes from earlier *g(W) palatalised
> before a front vowel (that is, Zupa < something like
> *geup-a:), which seems to rule out any connection with the
> Tamil word.
Since k>p by u in some Dardic, as Khow *pr,zdn,kús > *purdumpu^ >
purdúm 'leopard', Kamviri z.úk 'salt' was likely related to an
Indo-Iranian language with z.>z^ in which *z.u:kWa > *z^upa 'salt'
existed.
Therefore, as a borrowing into Slavic no earlier gW > gY is needed.
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And what about Kartvelian zGva "sea"
as a direct etymon to *s.ura, *zu-pa ans *z.uk "salt" ?
A.