Re: [tied] Vladimir

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

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> From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
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> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Vladimir
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> Another belated self-correction:
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>> we have Gmc. *xelma- 'helmet' --> PSl. *s^elmU as opposed to *hulma-
>> 'hill' --> PSl. *xUlmU, both developing just like any similar words
>> of native origin, undergoing all the changes expected of them
>
> I should have written *xulma 'hill' --> PSl. *xUlmU for the sake of
> consistency, lest anyone should think I'm proposing a new phonemic
> contrast for Germanic
>
> Piotr

It seems curious that even latin changed the initial form of "columne"
in "culme".
It looks like it is a generaly shift or a chain of borowings.
Since the form culme is begining with Plautus then the slavic "xUlmU" is
to seen as a loan from latin vias what a language?