Re: [tied] slavic "dalto"

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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:51 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] slavic "dalto"



> I won't be so sure:

Then don't be. It's your problem.

> I was curious since the rom. and Albanian form is 'dalta' without
> metathesis and I very doubt about the early Slavic into Romanian . The
> loans into Romanian present almost all changes which are in the Slavic
> languages, forms already with metathesis and so on.

As I've been telling you for months, close contacts between the Slavs and the Proto-Romanians began rather late, but the earliest contacts (resulting in borrowing on a veru limited scale) took place before metathesis in South Slavic.

> An another argument
> was the fact that the Slavs have been migrating people, such instruments
> are specialised instrument, but this doesn't mean a migrating folk
> cannot know it.

So why do you call it an argument?

> OK, let see why it seems very possible this is not a
> Slavic word:
> Latin dolo:
> dolavi, dolatum, dolitus, dolare= behaue, bearbeite, ; dolabra=
> Brechaxt, Dollabela= kleine Hacke, Axt,
> Root *del= spalten , schnizen, behauen , sanskirt dalayati, dalati,
> dalitah, dalam, dalih Greek dai-dallo, , kypriotisch daltos, , Greek
> deltos, ahd zelt ags. teld, an. tiald, grm *telda, ahd zelto, Lit dilti,
> dalit, russ. dolja.

If I tell you it's a load of rubbish, you probably "won't be so sure" either, but not a single derivative in your set fits the bill, either formally or semantically. Slavic *dolto does fine on both counts.

Piotr