From: Rick McCallister
Message: 63402
Date: 2009-02-24
> From: Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>I think you gave me the whole kitchen sink
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Order of Some Indo-Iranian Sound Changes
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 6:01 PM
> On 2009-02-23 22:39, Rick McCallister wrote:
>
> > To be a pest:
> > Where does Slavic /s^c^/ (et al.) come from?
> > Does it have several origins, depending on placement?
> e.g. does Polish
> > initial szcz- come from German /s^t/ as in Stettin ~
> Szczecin?
>
> The name has been etymologised in many ways, but certainly
> Slavic
> (Pomeranian), borrowed into German. The earliest
> orthographic rendering
> (1133) was <Stetin>. The suffix <-in> in
> placenames is usually
> possessive, so it's a safe guess that a personal name
> underlies the
> toponym. Since <-in> derives placenames from personal
> names in <-a>, the
> most likely basis is something like *S^c^eta, which could*
> be the Slavic
> appellative meaning 'brush, broom' used as a
> nickname (e.g. of a
> remarkably bushy-haired individual).
>
> As for the phonological story behind those rustling
> clusters -- vous
> l'avez voulu, mon ami, vous l'avez voulu...
>
> There are several possible sources of /s^c^/. It may
> reflect *stj, *skj,
> or *sk before any front vowel. Similarly, *zdj, *zgj and
> palatalised *zg
> all yield /z^3^/ (3^ = the voiced counterpart of c^). In
> Czech and
> Slovak, the second element was dissimilated, yielding
> /s^t', z^d'/.
>
> In other positions (that is, when not preceded by *s, *z)
> *tj and *dj
> developed into long affricates, *c'c',
> *3'3'; the former merged with the
> Slavic reflex of *kt before a high front vowel (Slavic *i
> or *I).
>
> Dialectal reflexes of *c'c' and *3'3' are
> as follows:
>
> In OCS and most of Bulgarian, s^t, z^d (but West Bulgarian,
> c^, 3^);
> in Serbian/Croatian and Macedonian, c', 3' (but
> C^akavian t', j);
> in Slovene, c^, j;
> in West Slavic, c, 3 (the latter > z in Czech);
> in East Slavic, c^, z^;
>
> I hope I haven't forgotten anything really important.
>
> Piotr