[tied] Re: ANUS

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh <gknysh@...> wrote:
>
> > ******GK: "Roman" is "Rzymianin" in Polish, as far as
> > I remember. And in Ukrainian it's "Rymlianyn". Not a
> > borrowing from Serbo-Croatian either.*****
>
> The change *Bj > /Bl'/ (where B stands for any PSl labial, i.e. /m/,
> /v/, /p/ or /b/) took place root-initially everywhere in Slavic,

Anyway, the development

Piotr, would you please explain what root-initially means?

> of a lateral from /j/ after a labial is so unusual and so
> characteristically Slavic that there can be no mistake about the
> origin of Rom. Râm and Râmleni.

You mean this is exclusively so in Slavic languages? I think some
more examples will help me get better what you are saying. Thanks.

Eva