Re: [tied] Re: again Slavic "dragU"

--- Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:51:08 +0000, Abdullah
> Konushevci
> <a_konushevci@...> wrote:

>
> >So,my reconstruction of protoform *dHo:rgHU 'dear',
> as an metathetic
> >variant of contracted and lengthened form of
> *dHrougH- seems very
> >convincible
>
> It's not convincing at all, it's nonsense. The
> P(B)S form
> underlying "dear" is *dargas (an o-stem, not a
> u-stem!), the
> form underlying "friend" is *draugas. There is
> absolutely
> positively no way they can be connected. The
> "friend" root
> may have Ablaut variants *drug- or *dreug-, but
> never
> *darg-. The "dear" word may have Ablaut variants
> *derg- or
> *dr.g-, but never *draug-.

******GK: At a more 'primitive'(analysis-wise)
contemporary level, I start many of my Ukr.letters
"Dorohyj druzhe" ("Dear friend"), sometimes
"Najdorozhchyj druzhe" ("Dearest friend") which are
not tautologisms.*****




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