Re: [tied] schauen

----- Original Message -----
From: "Petr Hrubis" <petusek@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:49 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] schauen


> There might be a cognate in Czech chovat, Polish chowac', Russ. dial.
> chova't' "protect, hide" PS *chovati perhaps < *skovati with an original
> meaning of "watch carefully". Then, G schauen, E show, L cave:re, Gr.
ko�o:
> < IE *(s)keu-
> What do you think?

I'm sceptical of deriving Slavic *x- from *sk-. The "officially accepted"
derivatives of *keuh1- in Slavic include *c^uti 'feel' and *c^udo (*c^udes-)
'miracle, wonder, prodigy'.

Piotr