Re: Slavic borrowing < ?

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "stlatos" <stlatos@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@> wrote:
> >
> > Ignoring Slavic phonology altogether? If "gamajun" were a really

old

> > Slavic word, it would require something like *ga:ma:jaun- in the

source

> > language, otherwise we'd get *gomojInU from your sequence.
>
> I haved no idea what you're objecting to. I'm not saying it's

very

> old _in Slavic_ at all. This would need to happen after a>o and

a:>a

> so the qual. not quant. mattered. Are you saying any kind of r in

any

> language could never be borrowed into another as j? Or that it

had to

> happen before ju>ji>jI? What's wrong with a borrowing at the same

time

> (or sim.) to Alkonost?

Pardon my intrusion, but couldn't alkonost have been borrowed from
Greek, at least partly, in the written way, thus escaping regular
phonetic changes? Cf. OCSl krIstU "cross" and Xristos "Christ" both
being ultimately forms of Greek Xristos, but borrowed through the
oral communication and writing respectively.