From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
Message: 6365
Date: 2001-03-05
>I can't check the etymology of <zot> at the moment, but since Albanian <z> may derive from *dj-, I'd risk the tentative guess that <zot> is a reflex of the contracted vocative *djeu-atta 'Djeus-father' (cf. Albanian at 'father').It's apparently from *wik^a:-pot(s) "lord of the village (extended