From: alex_lycos
Message: 18580
Date: 2003-02-08
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex_lycos" <altamix@...> wrote:there is no information about. In my dictionary is just "sl."= abbrev.
>
>> mmm.. I guess I mean not *podU but podU an attested word . And
> the "u"
>> here should be the short "u" I guess since in my Dictionary is
> given as
>> an /u/ with the shortness sign on it
>
> I'm sure the word is attested, I even vaguely recall to have heard it
> once or two from my grandma (she referred to the 'hearth-stone' at
> the _bottom_ of a stove). I just quoted a generalizing Proto-Slavic
> etymon, hence an asterisk. According to your dictionary, in what
> language is it attested with the specific meaning 'bridge', by the
> way? Serbo-Croatian?
>
> Sergei