From: Mate Kapović
Message: 28895
Date: 2003-12-29
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From: "g" <george.st@...>
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Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 1:24 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: etyma for Craciun,RomanianforChristmas
> On Monday, December 29, 2003, at 12:42 PM, Mate Kapović
> wrote:
>
> > Old Russian has consistently the spelling korocˇun7
> > with both -o- and not -ora- so this is also maybe proof
> > against Piotr's theory.
>
> Do you altogether exclude for OR the possibility
> of breaking up the kr- cluster by introducing a
> vowel in order to get something that might've been
> more agreeable to East Slavs 800-1000 years ago?
>
> Although, such clusters are typical to all IE idioms,
> in some of them some clusters are... bothering,
Not in East Slavic where you have words like *krojiti, *krov7, *krot7k7 etc.
where the sequence *krV- is original and not from *kVRC-. So there is no
reason why **krVcˇun7 > *kVrVcˇun. Sorry.
Mate