Re: Slavery and Slave trade in Antiquity II: *xolp-/*kolp-

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

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>*xol-p, *kol-p "slave"
>
> Vasmer
> Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch has:
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> 'xolóp, -а "servant, slave",
> xolopáj "servant, servile person",
> Ukrainan chołóp "serf, peasant",
> Belorussian cholóp,
> Old Russian cholopъ, n. pl. -i, g. pl. -ej (Mosk. Urk. 16.-17. Jhdt., s.
> Sobolevskij Lekcii 198),
> Russian - Church Slavonic chlapъ "servant, slave",
> Old Bulgarian chlapъ δου~λος, ο`ικέτης (Supr.),
> Bulgarian chlápe n., chlapák "boy",
> Serbo-Croat hl`àp g. hl`àpa and hlâp,
> Slovenian hlâp "boor",
> Czech, Slovak chlap "fellow, farmer, man",
> Polish. chłop,
> Upper Sorbian khłop, khłopc "fellow, chap",
> Lower Sorbian kłopc. ||
>

To cut a long story short:  http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/66821

> Gothic hilpan "help" (Korsch Potanin-Festschr. 537, against it Endzelin c. 1. 42).
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Together with Baltic *c^elb-, *c^é~lp- 'to help' this would point to a root *k^elp'- with a labial ejective. IMHO this etymology would explain Latin servus 'slave' as a substrate borrowing from a "satem" (in my own usage, not the traditional one) language. There're other "satem" words in Latin which would also deserve study.