From: alex
Message: 26486
Date: 2003-10-16
> 16-10-03 20:47, Sergejus Tarasovas wrote:it won't explain Ukarinian "hoska" and Romanian "huSti".
>
>> 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