Re: Musical instruments and music in Proto-Indo-European

From: tgpedersen
Message: 48758
Date: 2007-05-29

> > Russian "gusli" could only fit with the Baltic-Finnic forms if one
> > permits a LOT of sound changes.
>
> This is an inner Slavic derivative from *goNd-oN 'play music' (inf.
> goNsti, etc.), perhaps the same root, but with a nasal infix, as in
> Lith. gaudz^iu`, gau~sti. *goNsli is a fem.pl., the sg. being *goNslI;
> the suffix *-slI developed in derivatives of verbs with a final
> dental, presumably as one of the Slavic transformations of the
> instrumental suffix *-tlo-.

The same root, ie *kan-, with a nasal infix? Explain.


Tirsten

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