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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "whetex_lewx" <whetex_lewx@...>
wrote:
> Lith. va~karas (evening), Lv. vakars, Slav. vec^er, wiec^or
> (evening), Lat. vesper (evening), gk. vesperoj IE.: *wesper-o-,
> *weker-o-, *we(s)kwer-o-?
>
> It's not nescesarry say that nokWt-i-s was evening
The Attic Greek form is actually hésperos. Some other Ancient Greek
dialects had wésperos.
Could the Lithuanian word reflect earlier *vaskaras?
The Greek forms with -p- don't seem to match the Balto-Slavic
forms. One would think that a protoform like *weskWeros would lead
to Greek *westeros, not *wesperos. But then I could be wrong.
Could the Latin form actually be a borrowing from a Greek dialect?
We could be lead to a protoform *weskWeros instead of *wesperos.
- Rob