From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20646
Date: 2003-04-01
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 9:55 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Vladimir
> 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?
Slavic *xUlmU is a loan from Germanic. Germanic *xulmaz is related to Lat. culmen/columen but does not descend from it. They simply come from the same PIE root, *kel-; the derivative *kl.mo- > PGmc. *xulma- via Grimm's Law. Another related word is Eng. hill < OE hyll < *xulli- < *kl.ni- (cf. Lat. collis).
Piotr