LL-L "Etymology" 2007.03.09 (01) [E]

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From: "Utz H. Woltmann" <uwoltmann at gmx.de>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.03.08 (01) [E]

Marcel Bas wrote:

> Chernykh shows that the same word exists in Czechian, Polish, Upper
> Sorbian, Old Russian and that it must have existed in ancient SLavonic
> (he does not mention Southern Slavonic languages, though). He gives a
> corresponding Old Germanic *skatta-  and some Gothic and High German,
> but no derivations.

Hello Marcel,

in a Polish dictionary I found:

skot:                Vieh, Hornvieh (cattle, horned cattle)
skotarz:           Viehhirt (cattle drover, herdsman, shepherd)
skotnik:           Viehhirt (cattle drover, herdsman, shepherd)

but all of them with the remark "dawny" - "nicht mehr gebräuchlich" ("no
longer used").

Source: Wielki Słownik Polsko-Niemiecki, Tom II, Warszawa 1979

Best regards
Utz H. Woltmann

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From: Marcel Bas <roepstem at hotmail.com>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2007.03.08 (01) [E]

Mike:

 Marcel,
cf. Latin
peccus - live stock
pecunia - money
Ave! Mike Wintzer

Exactly! Interestingly, 'pecus' goes back to a proto-Indoeuropean root
*peìk^u-,
*which seems to have meant 'shaved wooly animal, sheep; cattle'. The related
root *pk^-t-eìn- *means "comb", and *pok^o-s* could have stood for "fleece"
(cf. the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece). It is an interesting word which
you find it in many Indoeuropean languages in many different meanings:
Sanskrit _pas'u_ (cattle),  Latin _pecunia_ (money), Armenian (genitive)
_asu_ (sheep's wool), Greek _peko_ (comb), Latin _pecto_ (to comb), English
_fight_ (supposedly with a comb-like tool), Old Icelandic _fax_ (manes), Old
Icel. _faer_ (sheep), etc.

Best regards,

Marcel.
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