petel

[John Dingley]

Hi,

Re: petel

Vasmer has an entry for "petel". He cites, inter alia, Serbocroatian
"petao", with a fleeting vowel, gen. "petla", and Benson gives the
nom. pl. as either "petlovi" or "petli". Vasmer also cites the
Slovene "petel", with a fleeting vowel, gen. "petla". Presumably
the nom. pl. in Slovene is "petli". Vasmer has a SC and Russian
Church Slavonic form "pe^t6l7" (= (p+jat'+t + front jer +l + back jer).
Given the SC and Slovene evidence, I see no reason not to take
Church Slavonic "pe^t6l7" as a straightforward o-stem noun, the
nom. pl of which would be "pe^t6li".

John Dingley

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