> --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> Slavic *sU-trava 'meal' can be ruled out definitely.
> The yers were
> certainly full vowels in the 5th century and would
> not have been dropped
> by any foreign borrowers.
There are cases in OCS where U- is absent between the prefix and muta
cum liquida anlaut: sloNkU "curved", "bent" (sUloNkU is attested only
once). Cf. also otrokU "child" < otU + rokU (rekti "to speak").
Besides, Jordanes took the whole description of Attila's funeral
ceremony from Priscus (Get. 255: hoc Priscus istoricus uera se dicit
adtestatione probare) who wrote in Greek. And Priscus could have taken
the word not directly from Slavic but via another language. The word
might have been distorted several times on this way.