Re: Illyrian-Albanian prefix d-

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

>
> Thanks.
>
> What about the slavic words
> de-lni and d-lani "palm of hand"
>
> Is there a IE language where
> la- could be a acceptable root for "hand, palm of hand" ?
>
> Arnaud

Slavic word delni till the XVI century and later to o declination was
panslavic abstractum *dolnь 'that which is open' from *del- 'to cut'.
So, form dlan is result of liquids metathesis, like dlaka, cf. Lith.
délna, Latv. delna.

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