Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

--- Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001 12:05:01 -0700 (PDT), george
> knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> >Here are some words taken from Hrinchenko's
> Dictionary
> >of the Ukrainian Language [1958, t. II, p. 292; t.
> IV,
> >p. 330] which might have affinity to *ekwos
> (*EKuOS).
> >I wonder if they are also present in other Slavic
> >languages?:
> >
> >KOS'JA = "a small mare"
> >KOS'KATY = "to call a horse hither"
> >KOS' KOS' = the actual cry summoning a horse
> >UKOS'KATY= "to tame a horse"
> >KOS'JAK= "a small herd of horses"
>
> *ek^wos would have given Slavic *eswU or *oswU.
> I think Gamqrelidze & Ivanov mention some toponyms
> (m.i. Os'wie,cim in
> Poland).

*****GK: Yahoo cut out as my message was going out. So
I'll briefly repeat it and ask for your indulgence. My
question: Are you saying that "satemization" works
universally and absolutely in languages affected by
it, and that there are no examples in these languages
of words which escaped the process?****

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