Re: [tied] Re: ANUS

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From: "alex" <alxmoeller@...>
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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: ANUS


> The point here is an another. why "rym-"? In the
> OCS texts I have, there is indeed in OCS an "y" , and for Rome there is
> "rym-".( I cannot give the slavic special caraters here for the "weak
> sign"
> So how is to see the o > i in Slavic?.
> Does not sound more probably that there has been an *rem which became an
> "rim-" in Slavic?

Slavic languages have *rimU ~ *rymU as variant forms. The word was probably
borrowed via a Germanic dialect (Lat. ro:ma was borrowed as *ru:m- into very
early Germanic, and u: > Slavic y; *i may derive from umlauted /u:/ in the
Germanic adjective *ru:m-iska- --> Slavic *rim-Isk-). There's no way you
could get Slavic rim-/rym- from *rem-; forget it.

Piotr