Re: [tied] Slavic voda

-----Original Message-----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal [mailto:mcv@...]
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:12 PM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [tied] Slavic voda

On Sun, 27 Jan 2002 16:36:54 +0100, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<gpiotr@...> wrote:

>Maybe the assumption that liquids block it is unfounded. Consider *ablu- > *a:blU-ko.

Well, Lith. N. óbuolos, Latv. âbuols point to a paradigm *h2ábo:l(s),
*h2bél-os ~ *h2b-l-ós, which would have given Slavic *a:ba:l- / *obl-.
 

What is your source for óbuolos? It's (N.sg.) obuoly~s in Standard Lithuanian.

 
 > That leaves the exceptions which, according to Jens, show blocking of
 > Winter's Law in tonic position: Li. sèg-ti "attach"; Sl. voda "water";
 > Li. smagùs, La. smags, smagrs "heavy" 

 

smagùs means 'cheerful, merry' in Standard Lithuanian. It seems Latvians and Lithuanians perceive the world in differrent ways

Sergei