Re: [tied] Enclosed Places

Piotr Gasiorowski wrote:

>
>> I did not quote the Slavic forms in /z/ (derived by inheritance from
>> *g^HerdH); I quoted forms in /z^/. Alternations of /g/ and /z^/
>> occur in Slavic morphemes to this day.
>>
>> At what point did vowel gradation cease to be productive in Slavic?
>> Or is it still productive today?
>
> No longer productive in roots, though the alternations are still
> pretty transparent. As for the consonants, the alternation *g/*z^ was
> still alive at the time of early borrowing from Germanic. In some
> loans we see velars palatalised before front vowels according to the
> pattern of the "first palatalisation" (i.e. *g > *z^ rather than
> *dz), e.g. *z^elsti (*z^eld-) 'pay a fine, compensate' < *geld-an-
> (Eng. yield, Goth. -gildan).

>> Piotr

tha was too one of my thoughts regarding the verb " to spend money"
which is in Rom. " a cheltui".

I thought that there must be something related to Germanic "geld" but
phoneticaly something does not work properly.
DEX gives it as a loan from hungarian "költeni". Maybe Hungarian made
the change of "g" to "k" and "d" to "t"? Or there should be an another
explanation?

Alex