Russkij mat

[Jouko Lindstedt]

On Wed, 7 Feb 1996, * PF10 UNDEFINED wrote:

> With regard to the theory of Tatar origin of mat:
> 1) certainly untrue for *b*t'; it has perfectly good Indo-European cognates in
> Greek (oipho) and Sanskrit (yabhati)
> 2) I quote from meory here, but I think **zd* has cognates in Old Prussian (wi
   t
> h a semantic shift!!) and Albanian.
> 3) Initial x- in Common Slavic is certainly a problem; many of these forms com
   e
>  from Iranian, or, later, Germanic.  Where does x** fit in - I don't recall se
   e
> ing it disucssed under this heading?

Come on, we are linguists! We don't need those asterisks. But the
information you give is interesting, thanks!

Jouko Lindstedt
Department of Slavonic Languages, University of Helsinki
e-mail: Jouko.Lindstedt at Helsinki.Fi or jslindst at cc.helsinki.fi
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