Re: [tied]Slavic *go~sI( it was Re: husk)

18-10-03 11:38, alex wrote:

> Thank you for these additional info. I wonder about an another word for
> gander which is present in Rom. too. The regular forms are "gâscã" for
> goose and "gâscan" for gander. The word I wonder about is "gânsac" which
> beside the suffix "-ak" should look like the Germanic form of the word:
> gans(+ak)> gânsac

<gâscã> is of course Slavic (diminutive *go~s-Uka-, as in Pol. ga,ska ,
Ukr. huska [just mentioned here], SCr. guska, Blg. g&ska [the closest
thing to the Romanian word]). Note also SCr. gusan 'gander' (hence
<gâscan> with analogical /k/). <gânsac> looks Slavic too, and at any
rate contains a common Slavic suffix (Ukr. husak 'gander' < *go~s-akU,
Pol. surname Ga,sak; another variant is visible in Bulg. g&sok). The
variable nasal simply indicates that the words were borrowed at
different times from different Slavic dialects.

Piotr