From: Mate Kapovic
Message: 35911
Date: 2005-01-15
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From: "willemvermeer" <wrvermeer@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Latin ibex akin to Portuguese bezerro?
>I seem to recall that there are doubts about the reality of b7k7.
Well yeah, it does seem a little bit strange.
> It
>has a very limited geographical distribution
In South Slavic, it is attested in Slovene (dialectally) and in Croatian
(Cakavian and Stokavian). In Croatian, it is widely attested in dialects.
>and dialects that
>differentiate between strong 7 and *a, such as Omis^alj on Krk, do
>not have the reflex of 7, but that of *a (ba"k, cf. pe"s 'dog') It
>>has been regarded (I think by Vasmer) as a loan from the Dalmatian
>reflex of *vacca, which in Vegliote is something like _bak_ and
>appears to mean 'bull'. (I'm quoting by heart, so don't pin me down
>on details.)
Interesting. It may have been so, also later contamination of "bak" (<
Dalmatian) and "bik" (Slavic) is very possible.
Mate