Re[2]: [tied] Re: Afro-Asiatic substrate (re "folk" "polk" "pulkas")

At 5:32:58 AM on Thursday, July 30, 2009, Anatoly Guzaev
wrote:

> You seem not to understand that your *sveNto changes
> nothing when the relation of Slavic words for world, light
> and saint is in question.

It most certainly does. PSlav. *sveNtU 'holy' is from PIE
*k^wen-to-; PSlav. *sve^tU 'light, world' is from PIE
*k^woit-o-. Different roots.

> Old Slavic ????? is, according to Vasmer, related to
> Russian ???????. It shows that Slavic 'world' is directly
> linked to "light"

No one denied this. The point is that these are not related
to the 'holy' word. Read Vasmer more carefully: for the one
he gives 'Praslav. *sve^tU', for the other. 'Praslav.
*sveNtU'.

Brian