A couple of questions about etymology

[Denis Akhapkine]

Zdravstvuyte Aleksey i drugie seelangovcy
Otvechayu po poryadku
1) doroga
Fasmer (kak i pochti vse drugie avtoritetnie slovari) vozvodit yeto
slovo k indoevropeyskomu *dorgh- , chto svyazano s rus. glagolom "dergat'"
i oznachaet "prodrannoe v lesu prostranstvo"
2) shlyah
zaimstvovano cherez pol'sk. szlach, chesh. s^lak "sled, koleya" iz
sredneverhnenemetskogo slag, slac "koleya, sled, doroga", novoverhnenem.
Schlag "udar"
2a) shlyat'sya (dial. slyat'sya)
soglasno Sobolevskomu - iz *s&lati se, (& - yeto er) svyazannogo so "slat'"

Esli nuzhna bolee podrobnaya informatsiya - pishite, Fasmer pod rukoy.
Naschet afraziyskih yazikov s hodu ne vspomnyu, no pomnyu, chto videl
knizhku ili stat'yu pro arabskie zaimstvovaniya. Esli nuzhno - poprobuyu
vspomnit' tochnee.

Vsego dobrogo.

Denis Akhapkine

PS: Transliteratsiya avtomaticheskaya, tak chto uzhasnaya.

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Denis Akhapkine                                 phone +7 (812) 552-9750 (home)
Department of Russian Language                  e-mail denis at da2938.spb.edu
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