Re: sorok

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> Actually, the second palatalisation would have given Slavic c [ts], as
> in cerkov' < *cIrIky 'church' < *kiriko: (here *I = the palatal yer =
> reduced [i], and y = Turkic back /I/, roughly) or in cena 'price' <
> *kE:na: < *kaina: < *kWoina:. Turkic *kIrk would have given Russian
> *!*kork- (or *!*cerk- in the very unlikely event of a front yer being
> substituted for the Turkic back vowel). This is all I can say at the
> moment, but I'll do my best to find out more about sorok later on.

Well, I that's what I was meaning, because x- is the only velar that
could have been palatalised as s-, the only turkic form that cound have
given russian sorok would be something like *x'Irk (but it don't think
you can have a short i followed by a vowel in old russian), or, why not
*x'rIk. However, none of these forms are attested in turkic as far as I
know.
Besides, it is strange that turkic I was loaned as short u or o (I
don't know the old russian orthography) instead of russian y, do you
have any references concerning turkic loanwords in slavic languages ?

Guillaume