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

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Torsten" <tgpedersen@> wrote:
> >
> >*xol-p, *kol-p "slave"
> >
> > Vasmer
> > Russisches etymologisches Wörterbuch has:
> >
> > '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).
> >
> Together with Baltic *c^elb-, *c^é~lp-

http://newstar.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?single=1&basename=/data/ie\
/baltet&text_number=+++769&root=config> '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.

Yes, I proposed that too.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/68510?var=0&l=1


Torsten