From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 18462
Date: 2003-02-05
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] okas
> thank you Piotr. A propos "ucenic". This word was with affricated "c" in slavic or a clear velar "k" or how?
So far I rememebr from my russian study it was " utSitel,", "utSitelia", "utSitelnitsa" and the verb "utSi"= to learn, so I suppose the "c" was in slavic already palatalised, wasn't it?
Yes, whenever a front vowel followed, so *uc^iti 'teach' (*uc^iti se~ 'learn'), *uc^itel- 'teacher' but *nauka 'learning, science'. The same root is found in *-vykati 'get accustomed', where *vyk- < *yk- < *u:k-. Cf. the second syllable of Russ. obyknovenno 'usually'.
Piotr