From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 21023
Date: 2003-04-15
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From: "Abdullah Konushevci" <a_konushevci@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, April 15, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: bake
> It seems that PIE root *bhag- have had very deep religious meaning.
> Albanian word Buzmi '(Tree-) trunk, Christmas log. Nata e buzmit
> Christmas Eve', an suffixed form of zero-grade of PIE *bhag-,
> testifies about it.
Best of all, the Slavic word for 'god, God' is *bogU (probably an Iranism); that, I suppose, is as religious as anything can get.
Piotr