Re: [tied] Fw: Sorok i devianosto

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

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> From: "Sergejus Tarasovas" <S.Tarasovas@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 28, 2003 9:01 AM
> Subject: RE: [tied] Fw: Sorok i devianosto
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> > There's also a subversion of this etymology, explaining ORuss

_sorokU_ eventually from the Proto-Slavic root-nest *sork- 'shirt;
any sack-like object' (cf. ORuss _soroc^IkU_ '40 skins' < 'sack of 40
skins' < 'sack', but _soroc^ica_ 'shirt').

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> Thanks. That, I think, is what Comrie actually wrote too, perhaps

suggesting a trade loan from Slavic into Germanic -- I don't remember
the details. The earliest I can check it up in that book on IE
numerals is on Friday.

>

Danish 'særk' "dress, undergarment, shirt". The kind of word you'd
meet in Medieval ballads.

Torsten

> Piotr