From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 26666
Date: 2003-10-28
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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] The Russian God Svarog
> The diminutive form would be *-IcI (< *-iko-), not *-itjI. A patronymic is
> hardly odd in the Slavic context, especially if we assume that it was
> originally added to a "first name", e.g. *dadjIbogU svaroz^itjI 'Dazhbog,
> son of Svarog'.
P.S.
As an example of actual usage involving the same patronymic formation,
Christ could be addressed as <boz.yc> (voc. <boz.ycze>) 'son of God (<bóg>)'
in Old Polish:
<twego dzela krzcziczela boszicze> 'for the sake of thy baptist, o son of
God'
http://www.kortlandt.nl/editions/#Bogurodzica
PIotr