Re: bg. nvEsta

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Abdullah Konushevci"
<akonushevci@...> wrote:

> Rather not from "bride" < neg. prefix "ne" and fem., but from the
> superlative of the adjective *newo- + suffix -isto with

meaning "the

> newest one", as Trubeckoj treat it. In Albanian the semantic

cognat

> is reja "the new one".
> Konushevci
>
> > From Buck's "Synonyms" again:
> > ChSl. 'nevesta' "bride" < neg. prefix 'ne' and fem.
> > of 'vestu' "known", hence the "unknown", that is, the newcomer
> > in the husband's family. Generalized in Old Polish 'niewasta'
> > to be the word for "woman" in general.
> > Dan

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"The newest one" certainly makes more sense than "the unknown"
for "bride". However, does the I.E superlative *-isto show up in
Slavic?
Dan