Onegin again (a minor correction)

[Jules Levin]

At 12:26 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
Latin "homo" - "man" (actually "human"; ultimately cognate with 
Common Slavic *zem- "earth", cf. Lithuanian zmuo/zeme)
>Robert Orr
The Lithuanian root has a zh-:  zhmuo (zhmogus) 'person', zheme: = 
'zemlya'.   This is the regular Li correspondence to an original
Slavic /z/.  Lith /z/ is rare--foreign or onomatopoeic.  Cf. zebras.
Jules Levin 

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