<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">L O W L A N D S - L - 09 March 2007 - Volume 01</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_uwoltmann@gmx.de" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">"Utz H. Woltmann" <<a href="mailto:uwoltmann@gmx.de">
uwoltmann@gmx.de</a>></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.03.08 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
<br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><div style="direction: ltr; font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcel Bas wrote:<br><br>> Chernykh shows that the same word exists in Czechian, Polish, Upper<br>> Sorbian, Old Russian and that it must have existed in ancient SLavonic
<br>> (he does not mention Southern Slavonic languages, though). He gives a<br>> corresponding Old Germanic *skatta- and some Gothic and High German,<br>> but no derivations.<br><br>Hello Marcel,<br><br>in a Polish dictionary I found:
<br><br>skot: Vieh, Hornvieh (cattle, horned cattle)<br>skotarz: Viehhirt (cattle drover, herdsman, shepherd)<br>skotnik: Viehhirt (cattle drover, herdsman, shepherd)<br><br>but all of them with the remark "dawny" - "nicht mehr gebräuchlich" ("no
<br>longer used").<br><br>Source: Wielki Słownik Polsko-Niemiecki, Tom II, Warszawa 1979<br><br>Best regards<br></div><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" class="sg">Utz H. Woltmann<br><br>----------<br><br></span>
<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">From: </span><span id="_user_roepstem@hotmail.com" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28); font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Marcel Bas <<a href="mailto:roepstem@hotmail.com">roepstem@hotmail.com
</a>></span><span id="_user_uwoltmann@gmx.de" style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148); font-family: arial,sans-serif;"></span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Subject: LL-L "Etymology"
2007.03.08 (01) [E]</span><br style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;">Mike: </span><br>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">Marcel,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">cf. Latin </font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">peccus - live stock</font></div>
<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2">pecunia - money<br>Ave! Mike Wintzer<br></font></div></div></blockquote>
<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#000080" size="2"><font color="#000000">Exactly! Interestingly, 'pecus' goes back to a proto-Indoeuropean root <em>peìk^u-, </em>which seems to have meant 'shaved wooly animal, sheep; cattle'. The related root
<em>pk^-t-eìn- </em>means "comb", and <em>pok^o-s</em> could
have stood for "fleece" (cf. the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece). It
is an interesting word which you find it in many Indoeuropean languages
in many different meanings: Sanskrit _pas'u_ (cattle), Latin _pecunia_
(money), Armenian (genitive) _asu_ (sheep's wool), Greek _peko_ (comb),
Latin _pecto_ (to comb), English _fight_ (supposedly with a comb-like
tool), Old Icelandic _fax_ (manes), Old Icel. _faer_ (sheep), etc.</font></font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"><font color="#000080" size="2"><font color="#000000">Best regards,</font></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000080" face="Comic Sans MS" size="2"><font style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;" color="#000000" face="Verdana">Marcel.</font><span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif;"> </span><br></font></div><br>