Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

Miguel Carrasquer Vidal mcv at wxs.nl
Sat Apr 10 09:52:17 UTC 1999


Robert Orr <roborr at uottawa.ca> wrote:

>The boundary between centum and satem is rather spotty, with some examples
>of Baltic *k / Slavic *s

>cf. Lith. klausyti OCS slysati

>also, (I think) in this example Sanskrit has pasu

>why could peku-/pisu not be parallel to klausyti/slysati?

Of course.  Even so, without doing the actual statistics, I have
the impression that in cases where Baltic disagrees with Sanskrit
on this, Slavic more often than not goes with Baltic (and
viceversa).

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam



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