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Yet, I was not aware of the slavic reflex of the word thus I am really
interesed to know how is the slavic jazvrŭ to be explained since the
word appears doubtless to be related to Romanian viezure and Albanian
vjedhullë. Is this really a slavic compound of an IE-root or -how it
seems - is this a loan into Slavic from a protoform like *we3uru: ?
If this is not a loan, then how is explained the "ja" at the begin of the word in Slavic?

Alex

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:
>
> W dniu 2012-03-12 03:38, Rick McCallister pisze:
>
> > For those of you tired of arguing over the same old thing, here's
> > something new to argue about: badgers.
> > My 2 cents: Isn't there a Gaelic term taigh (vek sim.) for "badger" that
> > also comes from *tek'-?
> > French, of course, has blaireau and Spanish has tejón --which I'm sure
> > one of our friends will shortly link both to Vasco-Tasmanian or whatever.
>
> Badgers were discussed on Cybalist as early as the end of the previous
> millennium:
>
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/4398
>
> I think Joshua Katz's badger article (1998, "Hittite tas^ku- and the
> Indo-European Word for 'Badger'", _Historische Sprachforschung_ 111,
> 61â€"82, based on his UCLA conference paper) is still the last word on the
> subject. At any rate, Katz's analysis militates against the
> traditionally postulated connection between PGmc. *þaxsu- etc. and
> *tetk^- 'build'. Not the builder of setts, but rather the owner of
> smelly glands.
>
> Piotr
>