Re: Slavery and Slave trade in Antiquity II: *xolp-/*kolp-

From: Torsten
Message: 69279
Date: 2012-04-08

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> > Gothic hilpan "help" (Korsch Potanin-Festschr. 537, against it
> Endzelin c. 1. 42).
> >
> > > Together with Baltic *c^elb-, *c^é~lp- 'to help'
> > > this would point to a root *k^elp'- with a labial ejective. IMHO
> > > this etymology would explain Latin servus 'slave' as a substrate
> > > borrowing from a "satem" (in my own usage, not the traditional
> > > one) language. There're other "satem" words in Latin which would
> > > also deserve study.
> >
> > Yes, I proposed that too.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/68510?var=0&l=1
> >
> > That's right, but please notice servus has nothing to do with
> > servo: 'to watch', in spite of De Vaan conflating both words. His
> > dictionary is a rather mediocre work, unworthy of its monetary
> > price.

Yes, you keep saying that. I am not quoting de Vaan, on servus and servare I'm quoting Ernout-Meillet. The attempted connection between seruus and seruare apparently goes back at least to Justinian.


Torsten