From: Andrei Markine
Message: 9657
Date: 2001-09-21
>--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> > *(h1)e- itself is a pronominal morpheme which combines quite freely
>with other such elements (e.g. Russian eto < *(h1)e-tod), ...
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>I have come across no Russian words starting in [e-] rather than
>[je-], except [eto] and recent loanwords. In PIE [H1ed-] = "eat" and
>[H1esti] = "is", the [e-] pressnts in Russian as [je-]. I have a good
>textbook of Old Slavonic, and it does not list [eto]. I suspect that
>the [e-] in Russian [eto] arose in historic Russian times as a
>prefixed inarticulate emphatic noise.
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