[tied] Re: Vrddhi in sigmatic aorist

--- In cybalist@..., george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:

> *****GK: I don't have the exact text at hand but I
> remember clearly that in the Kyivan Primary Chronicle
> (s.a. 898) where the etymology of a Kyivan Hill named
> after the Old Ugrians [proto-Hungarians] is discussed
> it is stated that these Ugrians arrived in its area
> "and stayed there with their "vezhas" (a Chronicle
> term for the waggons of the nomads, because many had
> elevations that looked like tents), and the Chronicle
> goes on (pardon the memory errors as to exact script)
> :"byakhu bo KHODJASHCHI aki sut' Polovtsi"
> >which could I think be properly translated as "for
> they were "WAGGON-RIDERS" as are the Polovtsians" [the
> Cumans of the chronicler's own epoch ca. 1100]

Thank you, George. I was going to post some quotations from <Pove^stI
vre^menInyxU le^tU> in the evening as I don't have the text at hand
at work, but you've nearly delivered me from the necessity of doing
that.

Sergei