Re: [tied] vegliot

From: alex
Message: 22631
Date: 2003-06-04

Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alex" <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
>> BTW, which should be the etymoplogy of the South Slavic ( Serbian
> and
>> Bulgarian ) "velik"= big?
> ******
> Pokorny Record number: 2128
>
>
> Root / lemma: u_el-3
>
> English meaning: to press, push
>
> German meaning: `dra"ngen, pressen, zusammendra"ngen, einschlies|en'
>
> lit. va~linas `Wall', valiny~s `Tuchecke', lett. valnis `Kante',
> su-valy/ti `(Getreide) zusammenbringen, ernten', lit. is^-valy/ti
> `heraus-, fortschaffen', valy/ti `reinigen'; aksl. *velü (: gr. )
> in
> velü-mi, -ma `sehr, u"berma"s|ig', velü-le^pú `sehr scho"n',
> velijü,
> velikú `gros|', *valú `Haufen, Menge' (*u_o:los) in russ.
> va/lom `in
> Menge', nava/l `gros|er Haufen', zava/l `Verstopfung, Sperre',
> priva/l `Landen' (*Andra"ngen), va/lümja `haufenweise' usw.;
>
> Seems pretty far-fetched to me, but there it is.
> Dan


Thank you Dan. It should be interesting to know if there is a
methathesis in Slavic of "klV" to "lVk".