Re: [tied] Yers

Miguel,

I don't know why I find your emails very to-the-point and really
helpful (in the case I am acquainted with the languages in
question and can get something of what you are saying).
Thanks again, but now I really have to go away from this lab.

Second round tomorrow (don't write any more replies before I
go!).

Eva


--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <
mcv@...> wrote:

> On Tue, 10 Jun 2003 12:31:40 +0000, fortuna11111 <

fortuna11111@...>

> wrote:
>
> >I am sure about the question marks on the etymology of the

word

> >in Pokorny. I will look it up again. The question was not

about

> >the PIE form. The problem is the AzU looks very unusual
> >compared with the forms in most Slavic languages. From

what I

> >got from Pokorny, the development of the sounds is hard to
> >explain historically. I did not need a PIE reconstruct of the

word.

>
> Pokorny's IEW was written before the discovery of Winter's

Law, which

> states that the PIE consonants *b, *d, *g/*gW and *g^ (and *

not* *bh, *dh,

> *gh, *gWh, *g^h) cause lengthening of a preceding vowel in

Baltic and

> Slavic. Therefore, PIE *h1eg^ gives Proto-Slavic *e:zU ~ *e:z,

and then

> *(j)azU ~ *(j)a, with the normal development of initial *e:-.
>
> >...there is a word
> >gargara in Bulgarian, which means something similar.

"Prjavja

> >si gargara" means when you have a sore throat you take

some

> >water with salt or something else in your mouth and then

exhale

> >against it (which gives out a gurgling sound of a sorts).
>
> That's "hacer gárgaras" in Spanish.
>
> >Other examples: (non-Slavic / Slavic)
> >
> >pita - hljab "bread"
>
> That's of course the pita ~ pizza word.
>
> > koleda "Christmas"
>
> From Latin calenda (cf. Polish kole~da "Xmas song").
>
>
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