Re: Hick

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

>
> [...]
> *x- in general is supposedly difficult to explain as native in

Slavic,

> as I understand it. Aren't there other examples of
> *s- (*s^- >) > *x- ?

*xoditi "to walk" < PIE *sod-/*sed- (cf. Greek hODOS, hODEUW)

*xold-InU "cold", cognate to Lith. s^a'ltas "cold", s^a'lti "to
freeze" (< PIE k'-).

But mostly the anlaut *x- < *sk- (*ks-), afaik.