On 05-01-15 14:41, Mate Kapovic wrote:
> Hm, Slovene has "buka" and it is attested in OCS as "buka" as well.
> Macedonian also has a verb "buka se"... So no nasal there definitely. I do
> not exclude other etymologies of *byk7 though.
Sporadic denasalisation may be found in those Slavic languages that
normally preserve *eN amd *oN. I'm not sure about Slovene but there are
quite a few examples of /u/ for *oN in Polish, in words that don't seem
to be loans, and of course there are varieties of Church Slavic with the
shift of eN, oN > a, u (I don't know in which manuscripts(s) <buka> is
attested, though). In addition to the noun <ba,k>, Polish has the
perfective verb <ba,kna,c'> (despite imperfective <buczec'>). It's of
course perfectly possible that "+/- nasal" alternation at least in
onomatopoeic roots like *boNk-/*buk- < *baNk-/*bauk- goes back all the
way to Proto-Slavic.
Piotr