Re: Day and dies, deus and theos

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Like any explanation of sporadic variation it is a priori suspect

and can at best be regarded as hypothetical, but it is still a
possibility.

>
> There are well-known examples of Slavic (also Polish) metanalysis

involving prepositions and prefixes:

>
> vUn imI > w nim
> sUn imI > z nim (similarly in Russian)
> ob-uti 'put (shoes) on' > o-buc' (false reanalysis has created a

new verb root, bu-, "related" to but 'shoe')

>
> Piotr

Afraid to look pedantic, still...

Proto-Slavic form should be *jImI (with *jI>i in later, yet not
Common-Slavic developemnt).

Sergei