Re: [tied] Slavic voda

On Mon, 28 Jan 2002 18:20:32 +0200, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>You've been citing Chernyx's etymologies from time to time, so I feel a
>necessity to warrant: his competence hardly extends far beyond the
>history of Russian (starting from mediaeval times), and I've never seen
>any Russian scholars to cite his works when discussing topics which are
>deeper in time (eg, related to Proto-Slavic in general, much less PIE).
>
>My impression is that his dictionary is mostly a compilation (Meillet,
>Pokorny, Vasmer etc), its 'original' parts being rather lame. As to
>Slavic etymologies, Sadnik-Aitzetmüller's and Trubachev's dictionaries
>are a better source, IMO.

You are right, undoubtedly. Unfortunately, Chernyx is what I have at
hand for Russian, and it's better than nothing (nothing is what I had
for the last 30 years or so).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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