Re: Indo-Iranian

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

>
> >> The reconstruction *ko~tja for Proto-Slavic is secure, ...
>
> > Therefore, if you claim the word is reconstructed in Proto-

Slavic, I

> naturally want to know how (unless you show there are examples in

other than

> Southern-Slavic languages, the logic remains a mystery to me). Of

course,

> you are not obliged to explain. Do it if you wish.
>
> Why shouldn't I? I have already partly answered your question.

Comparison

> between Bulgarian and Serbo-Croatian requires *ko~tja as the common
> prototype. The related word *ko~tina is attested in West as well as

South

> Slavic (in Old Polish it was used of pagan temples). In the south,

*ko~tja

> expanded at the expense of *domU; the original meaning was more
> specialised -- something like 'building' or 'shelter', perhaps. It

is

> related to *ko~tU 'angle, corner' (a word which survives in West

Slavic,

> also with meanings like 'hideout, shelter, hut').
>

FU has *kota 'house/home' > Fin. kota > koti 'house/home'
Hung. ha'z 'house/home'
Aves. kata 'shelter/house'
Pers. kad 'house'
Mong. gada(n) 'house/village'
Turk. kota 'house'
Ainu kota 'village'

I just wonder if *ko~tja belongs with these?

Peter P