"piotr gasiorowski" <
gpiot-@...> wrote:
original article:
http://www.egroups.com/group/cybalist/?start=115
I would like to apologize for this rather late reaction, but it's today
that I came across this newsgroup.
>I'm not sure in what other branches cognates of *kent- survive.
Perhaps other >Cybalist memebers could help.
As far as I'm concerned, the PIE stem *kent can be analyzed as ken-t-
(where *-t- is a very productive suffix in IE), with *ken- as a more
generic root meaning 'cut' etc. So the obvious descendant has happily
survived in nearly all Slavic languages - I mean Russian chiast' and
other reflexes of Common-Slavic *cheNsti 'part,share'<'something cut
away (for)'<(absolutely regularly from)*kent-t-is (sorry for
transcription, but you know what I mean).
Sergei.