Re: [tied] husk

16-10-03 20:47, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:

> Since *o in *o(b)-sUpa bears new acute, a prosthetic [w] (or may be even its
> alternant [h]) wouldn't be a great surprise.

I've even seen <hospa> as an actual spelling in Old Polish (referring to
smallpox, to be sure, not to husk, but the etymology is the same). A
prothetic glottal glide was quite common in older Polish; I'm not sure,
however, if it can be proposed for the hypothetical Slavic source of
<hoaspã>.

Piotr