Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

[Miguel Carrasquer Vidal]

X99Lynx at aol.com wrote:

>In a message dated 5/10/99 3:27:35 AM, our moderator wrote:

><<[ Moderator's comment:
>  *g does not > **s in Slavic, but to *z.
>  --rma ]>>

>But *g >*z is also the formula for the first palatalization -

It isn't.

>In other for any initial *g to have gotten to the first palatalization, it
>would have had to survived satemization.  In which case, either *g was
>unaffected by satemization (contrary to mcv's statement) or only borrowings
>with *g were left to undergo the Slavic palatalizations.

You forget PIE *g(h)w and *g(h) [as opposed to *g^(h)].

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
mcv at wxs.nl
Amsterdam