Re: Vojing and voding

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2008-12-01 19:09, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > What is that voj- which a vojevoda vods?
>
> *vojI 'warrior' (Pol. wój, OCS, ORu. voi) < *woih1-o- (assuming the
> correctness of the LIV reconstruction of the root as *weih1-). The
> byform *vo(j)inU is an extension of that, with the singulative
> suffix *-inU. In a compound, *woih1o- > *voje-.

Any relation of the suffix of Gmc kindin-, druhtin-, þiudan-?

> LIV lists *wedH- 'führen' and *wedHh1- 'stoßen' as formally
> different roots.

FWIW.

Any comment on the Sloven. vòj, G. vója "leader", as contrasted with
the forms in -d-?


Torsten