From: Miguel Carrasquer
Message: 36188
Date: 2005-02-09
>Because Czech /h/ comes from /g/, and the yer that follows
>
>--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer <mcv@...> wrote:
>
>> The suffix is -n. Greek *pot-n-ih2 > potnia is regular.
>> -poina comes from *ponja, reduced from *potnja.
>>
>> That Polish pani comes from *potnih2 (with pan backformed on
>> it) is an old idea of mine, but doesn't seem to be tenable.
>> The lengthening o > a is not easily explained, and the older
>> form is OCz. hpán, suggesting *gUpan-, a borrowing from
>> Iranian (also z^upan, etc.)
>
>why exactly *gUpan with "gU"?
>I keep in mind the time frame where the change "an" > "1n" since theExcept in old borrowings, like stãpân, jupân.
>Rom. reflex of the word is "jup1n". The "ju" could be yelded out
>off "g^u" or "iu" but the Slavic "an" remains "an" in Rom. and does
>not become "ân".