Re: [tied] "Fish" in Slavic

--- Abdullah Konushevci <akonushevci@...> wrote:

> Seems that "ry-ba" is an abstractum in -ba, like:
> Zal-ba, goz-ba,
> svad-ba, veZ-ba, Zur-ba etc. If Slavic y < *u:,

****GK: "y" is (I think) an "i-type" pronunciation:
pbi-BA, pbi-Bbi in 15th c. texts. Does this go back to
an *u: ?*****

the

> most plausible
> explanation would be the root in *reu(H)- 'to smash,
> knock down, tear
> out etc.'. I exclude here the root *reu- 'to below'.
> Just a guessing.

*****GK: Thank you. What kind of fish would behave in
this way? We're almost talking of behemoths or
leviathans. Proto-Slavs watching whales in the arctic,
and then migrating and applying the term to smaller
fishies in lakes and rivers? How about another
guess?*****


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