Re: [tied] *kuningaz (again)

From: george knysh
Message: 12187
Date: 2002-01-30

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> Slavic *kUnINg-U may have been borrowed from Gothic
> (*kuning-s) or from some very early form of West
> Germanic (*kuning). The *kuning- part is faithfully
> preserved in either case, but unlike the Finns, who
> did not analyse the loan morphologically, the Slavs
> replaced the Germanic inflectional ending (if any)
> with their own *-U.

*****GK: Thank you Piotr (and thanks to Miguel for his
parallel contribution). How does one explain the sound
shift away from "g" in Slavic? Esp. East Slavic. In
the latter, one has both "Varyagi" and "Variazi"
developing from "Vaeringar" (with the nasal loss), but
I have never seen "knyagi" only "knyazi". And the "g"
to "z" may even have antedated the loss of nasals
here, since there is an Arabic text of the 8th c.
which explains that "knez" is the Saqaliba term for
"malik".******


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