Re: [tied] slavic "dalto"

Dan,

I glossed it below as 'chisel'. Applying the normal metathetic transformations you'll get Russ. doloto, Pol. dl/uto (< dl/óto), Cz. dláto. There is also a South Slavic variant, dle^to < *delto < *delb-to, based directly on the verb *del(b)ti. Outside of Slavic we have OPruss. dalptan 'chisel' (the same word as *dol(b)to).

The root *delb- < PIE *dHelbH-, cf. Eng. delve.

Piotr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] slavic "dalto"


> Alex, Piotr, don't be so cryptic. I can't find "dalto" in a
> Romanian or in a Russian dictionary. Just what is it you are
> discussing?
> Dan
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
> > To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 10:18 PM
> > Subject: [tied] slavic "dalto"
> >
> >
> > > Is this indeed a slavic word? Or this is too borrowed from
> somewhere?
> >
> > It's echt Slavic. From *delbti, *dolbati 'make holes'.
> *dolto 'chisel' < *dolb-to; the cluster was simplified in Slavic.