Re: [tied] The word for horse

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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 6:10 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The word for horse


> I agree with DEX -- and why shouldn't I? Slavic *kaliti 'harden' exists (and you can find it e.g. in Serbo-Croatian)
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> Piotr
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> 1) just in serbo-croatian?

No, everywhere in Slavic.

> 2) is slavic not a satem language? How should be the form fom PIE here?

Satem languages also have lots of words with /k/. It was only one set of dorsal phonemes (*k^, *g^, *g^H) that were palatalised. *k and *kW > k everywhere in the Satem group.

Piotr

Piotr