Re: [tied] Re: Germanic - Balto-Slavic connections?

--- altamix <alxmoeller@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, george knysh
> <gknysh@...> wrote:
> >
> > GK: Interestingly, the term "rob" "rab" is
> > ignored in East Slavic legal documents (except for
> the
> > female slave as above). Instead, one has
> "chelyad'"
> > (for both sexes), and "kholop" for the male slave.
> > Perhaps this was due to the influence of
> Christianity?
> > Where the faithful was "rab Bozhyj" ("God's
> slave").
> > It was inconvenient to use the same word with
> respect
> > to real (male) slaves, inconvenient for the ruling
> > classes of course.
>
>
> and the another aspect is to find in Rom. The verb
> "a roboti" did not
> make many derivatives but the word "rob" (slave)
> became a veritable
> root with a lot of derivatives. the aspect of "rob"
> as "slave"
> and "robul lui Dumnezeu" (rab Bozhyj) has not been
> felt as
> inconveniet at all,

*****GK: One area where the Old Ukrainian terminology
was maintained in legal documents was medieval
Moldavia, at least in the Slavic language of the state
and courts. There is not one instance known to me of
"rob" or "rab", but the usual "roba", "chelyad", and
"kholop" (documents of the 15th c. issued at Suceava
and elsewhere). Of course things might have been
different in the vernacular.*****





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