From: Brian M. Scott
Message: 20644
Date: 2003-04-01
> Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:Not from Latin at all: Piotr's saying that it's a borrowing
>> Another belated self-correction:
>>> 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
> 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?