Re: [tied] Re: Ardagast/Radogost

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From: "george knysh" <gknysh@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 4:24 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Ardagast/Radogost



> ******GK: What do you think of Abdullah's non-Gothic, but still non-Slavic reconstruction?*****

>
> *****GK: ...As to your Slavic interpretation of ARDAGAST evolving into RADOGOST, I have some queries. (1) We had earlier been looking at different evolutions of some reconstructed originals (examples *grod, *vlod, *molk. The contention being that by the 9th c. South and West
Slavic were involved in metathetic, and East Slavic in pleophonic, developments). Why would the former not have given ADRA from ARDA (is it because of the initial vowel?); and is the attested form RADOGOST
West/South Slavic? Would one expect something like ARADAGOST in East Slavic?

Why *adra-? It's the vowel and the liquid (*r/*l) that swap places. Other consonants don't play this game.

But things are indeed different word-initially. Any preconsonantal *or-/*ol- becomes ra-/la- in South Slavic, but in the northern Slavic groups (including East Slavic -- no pleophony here!) the development depends on the original intonation of the initial syllable. A syllable bearing a Proto-Slavic acute accent, *ór-/*ól-, becomes ra-/la-, but a syllable with a Proto-Slavic circumflex, *ôr-/*ôl-, becomes ro-/lo-. Since the vowel of *órdU 'glad, joyous' was acuted, it became <radU> _everywhere_ in Slavic. Consequently, the name *órdogostU > radogostU had the same post-metathesis form everywhere.

> (2) Are Slavic interpretations of PERIGAST and DAURIT ARDAGAST's
buddies) available?******

Let me leave that for later.

Piotr