From: fournet.arnaud
Message: 58298
Date: 2008-05-03
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From: "ualarauans" <ualarauans@...>
>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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What about sclav-us ?
same structure k_l-w/p
Arnaud