Re: [tied] Baltic evidence for *sW-?

On Thu, 01 Nov 2001 18:05:34 -0000, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>I'm afraid to seem importunate, but what do you think about the
>Lithuanian river-name <S^eduva`> from msg#10809? IMO, it makes your
>hypothesis on *sW a bit less speculative (cf. also Germanic _swim_-
>words you mentioned). I'm going to screen the register of Lithuanian
>hydronyms and some lexicographical sources on Lithuanian dialects
>(where the root may still exist in appelatives) if this would be of
>any relevance here.

My specialty is not hydronyms and other toponyms, which is why I
didn't feel replying to that message would contribute much. Also, I
was thinking the Baltic reflex of phoneme *X had to be simple *s, at
least I think the loc.pl. always has /s/, and the 2sg. active is of no
use, as it has been replaced (presumably by an ending abstracted from
*es-sei, interpreted as *es-ei). But I had forgotten about Lith.
<s^es^ì> (and OPr. <uschts>!), so there may be something to it after
all. <S^eduvà> as "the running" vel sim. does make obvious sense...