Re: [tied] Fw: Sorok i devianosto

From: george knysh
Message: 18244
Date: 2003-01-28

--- Sergejus Tarasovas <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
> *sork- definitely existed, at least as a borrowing
> from Germanic /.../It's the meaning 'sack'
> that's problematic.

****GK: Yes. That's what I meant. IF the Slavic
variants of this borrowing all meant "shirt" then it's
simpler to view the Byzantine "tessarokonta" as the
source of the numeral "sorok" for the East Slavs. I
don't see how you go from "shirt" to "sack of 40
martens" with no complications.*****


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