Re: [tied] Danke - dzienkuje - any connection?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-04-12 22:18, george knysh wrote:
>
> > ****GK: What about Belorusian "dziakavac'" (= to
> > thank)?****
>
> You're right. Still, it's the western fringe of East Slavic, and

very

> close to Ukrainian.
>

I think I read somewhere that Belorussian was the official language of
the Lithuanian state at some time? If so, the chain should be German >
Polish > Belorussian > Ukrainian.


Torsten