Re: [tied] Re: work

From: alex
Message: 34499
Date: 2004-10-06

Daniel J. Milton wrote:
> Alex, can't you make it clear what you're talking about? What
> word in what Slavic language are you talking about? Cz.
> treba, "perhaps" perhaps? Your subject line suggests you may have
> some t-initial form of the rab- group, with a well known etymology <
> I.E. orbho (Pokorny 1427).
> Pokorny also gives one nonGermanic reflex of dhreibh, in
> Lithuanian.
> Dan Milton
> **********


Dan, Rom. "treab�" means "work" as well as trabajo, travaille, trabaho. DEX
consider to be a loan from Slavic "trEba". I assumed in Slavic the word
meant too "work".

Alex