Re: [tied] russian vor [was: IE thematic presents and the origin of

--- "Daniel J. Milton" <dmilt1896@...> wrote:

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> Russian 'vor' "thief" calls to my untutored mind
> the Greek 'phor'
> "thief" (and the Latin derivative or cognate 'fur').
> Sound rules
> don't allow common derivation from I.-E., but is
> borrowing out of the
> question? I'm not suggesting that Slavs were more
> likely to have
> their belongings lifted by Greeks than by Finns, but
> a southern source
> does seem as plausible as a northern.
> Dan Milton

*****GK: One wonders, then, why it wasn't borrowed
into Ukrainian or Belarusian (both groups, esp. the
former, geographicallhy closer to the Greeks.)
Russian, on the other hand, is contiguous to many
Finnic dialects (not just Finlandic if that's what
people think of as Finnic here) which had the word
(e.g. vargas in Vepsian), so a northern source does
sound more plausible. BTW is Lithuanian vagas (sp?)
=thief, at all related (it is missing the "r"...?*****

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