Re: Magyar uveg

On 2008-04-21 20:58, david_russell_watson wrote:

> Johnny Cheung gives:
>
> avg | avgæ 'steklo', 'butylka' ('glass', 'bottle').
> < *a:p(a)ka:; cf. M. yówGa, Y. yóuGo 'water' (< *a:paka:-,
> IIFL II: 272), W. yupk, (?) yápak, Zaz. awke (f.!) 'water'
> (Malmisanij 1987: 26b), MP a:bge:nag 'crystal, glass'
> (borrowed in Sogd. ''pkyn-, ''pkyn'k, (Man.) ''pky(nyy)
> '?'), Khz. 'bkyn(n)k 'glass'.

Of course the root is IIr. *a(:)p- 'water' with the all-purpose suffix
*-aka-, so 'glass' = 'water-like'.

Piotr