Re: [tied] Re: RUKI and hypothetical ks- > sk- metathesis in BS

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

>
> Next my hypothesis is that this word was borrowed by the Slavs as
> *hurba from the Dacian tribes at the North of what is today Romania,
> around 500-700 BC. After the Slavic Metathesis teh Slavic word
> arrives to be : *hruba -> next borrowed by Romanians in this form.

Without calling Dacian in ecuation, apparently the languages we know
seem to explain the Slavic word. The word looks like a regular
development of a Germanic (Gothic drectly?) "gruba" (cognate with Rom.
"groap�", Alb. "grop�" which will yeld regular "hruba" in Slavic with g

> h.

>
> 2. The Second word is Romanian *hrap� 'rocky versant' from
> Ukrainian/Ruthenian 'hrapa' -> that seems to have the same history as
> *hruba.

hmmm "hrap�" (regionalism) means "ravine"; I wonder if in relation with
"r�p�" since hte meaning is appropiate and the phonetic form looks
appropiate. The problem of "h" there makes the word very curious.


Alex




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