From: alex
Message: 24598
Date: 2003-07-16
> 16-07-03 19:29, alex wrote:No. It can be it is simply unrelated one to each other. I am sorry, I
>
>> forget this one for "grãdiSte". The semantic meaning is so far away
>> fromt the Slavic one, you wont belive it. and if "ina" is a Slavic
>> suffix, then all IE suffixes are comming from Slavic:-)
>
> [sigh] OK, so you _are_ incorrigible. And the metathesis can just be
> ignored, I suppose.
>hmmm.. and Slavic "groza" what should mean then? Rom. "groazã"= a very
>> Piotr , in how far you see the relation of Slavic "graZdI" with
>> "gorod"?
>
> It's from *gord-jI, <z^d> being the normal reflex of *dj in OCS. Cf.
> Old Polish grodza 'enclosure, fence' < *gord-ja.
>
> Piotr