From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 28945
Date: 2003-12-30
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From: "g" <george.st@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 29, 2003 10:48 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: I Novgorod Chronicle
> On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, at 09:36 PM, Sergejus wrote:
>
> > The First Novgorod Chronicle.
> >
> > Gospoz^ina dni do Koroc^'una, teplo, dUz^gI; i by(stI) voda velika
> >
> > can't extract the exact value of _Karac^'unU_ from the context
>
> Can it then be read either way, i.e. [koro-] and [kara-]?!
> If so, this would underline my assumption that the
> Russian variant with an additional vowel evolved only
> out of some... "aesthetic/stylistic" whim. For some reason,
> locals didn't like kra-. (I don't dare assume any...
> Uralic or Altaic language influence exerted upon such
> idiosyncrasies. :-))
You obviously failed to see my message with examples of #krV- in Russian
which are quite normal. *CorC > *CoroC in East Slavic does not mean that
there is no possible Cro- root in Slavic. There are *many*.
Mate