Re: Hick

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

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> BTW what's the official etymology for Polish xl/op "hick,

hillbilly"

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Proto-Slavic *xolpU "slave", "servant", "service man" etc in:
Etimologic^eskij slovar' slav'anskix jazykov (Vol. 8. Moscow, 1981)

http://essja.narod.ru/pg/08/f062-063.htm
http://essja.narod.ru/pg/08/f064-065.htm
(together with *xol-kU and *xol-stU from *xol- < *skol- "to cut"(?)
in the meaning "castrated [slave]")

But I wonder could it be rather a loan < PGrm *xalp- (from
*xelpan "to help")?

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