Re: [tied] *kuningaz (again)

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From: george knysh [mailto:gknysh@...]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2002 3:36 PM
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [tied] *kuningaz (again)

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...>
wrote:
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*****GK: Just a very small point. Ukr. has both
"kvitka" and "tsvitka" for "flower". Are there similar
situations on other Slavic languages? i.e.
simultaneous presence of old+new?*****

 

 I can't recall (probably because of the flu and lack of erudition) any specific examples, but Standard Ukrainian, as any national language, is a result of convergent development of a number of different dialects; in some of them the 2rd palatalization might have been blocked by /v/, while in others might have been not (both is normal), hence the vaccilation between /k/ and /c/. On the other hand, why not just the Polish influence?

 

Sergei