Re: [tied] *ekwos and friends

At 10/17/2001 01:20 AM -0700, you wrote:

>*****GK: What about a simpler route:
>2. This "cry" is maintained even as the other language
>shifts occur.[analogy: the mysterious "tsur (tobi)
>pek" expression in Ukr. I don't know if it exists in
>other Slavic languages. It may. You tell me]

Is this misterious "tsur" related to Russian "chur" (when children, we used
exclamations "chur men'a" "chur ne men'a"). I saw it interpreted as
evocation of spirit of forefathers for assistance or protection (cf.
prashchur).

Andrei