--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> But Slavic *xod-/*s^Id- does NOT mean "ride in a wagon". It
strongly implies walking, i.e. going on foot, as OPPOSED to riding in
a vehicle.
Can you state that you've carefully analyzed the semantics of all
reflexes of *xod-/*s^Id- in all Slavic languages and have
reconstructed it's original semantics (not just on a quantitative
basis, of course). I admit I haven't, but at least in Russian a
professional <xo'dit> 'goes' rather than <pla'vajet> 'sails' in a
ship, in Old Russian <xoditi> prevails absolutely when the
semantics 'sail' is to be denoted. Ship is a vehicle, and the
situation when an old semantics is conserved "on the perifery" with
some specific meaning is quite possible typologically.
>and the very idea of "walking by sitting" seems self-contradictory
>to me.
But I meant "going by sitting" - the thing we do every day driving a
car. I personally don't walk in my car (probably because I don't have
a limousine).
Sergei