LL-L "Etymology" 2009.03.02 (05) [E]

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From: Mike Morgan <mwmosaka at gmail.com>

Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2009.03.02 (04) [E]



On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Lowlands-L List <lowlands.list at gmail.com>
wrote:

Another Old Germanic loan in Finnic: Finnish *leipä*, Estonian *leib*, Veps
*leib, liib*, Sami *láibi *'bread'; cf. Germanic **hlaiba(z)*, Gothic *
hlaifs*, Old Norse *hleifr*, Old German *leib* (> *Laib*), Old English *hlāf
* (> "loaf"), Old Frisian *hlêf*. The Germanic cognates mentioned here all
used to mean 'bread' as well as 'loaf'.



And that one too, like kuningas, found its way into Slavic (via
Balto-Finnic?) -- as for example the Russian word for bread.


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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Etymology

Thanks, Mike.


as for example the Russian word for bread.


Indeed!

It must be a very old loan considering its spead among the Slavic languages:



Belarusian: хлеб (xleb)

Bulgarian: хляб (xljab)

Czech: chléb

Kashubian: chléb

Lower Sorbian: klěb

Polish: chleb

Russian: хлеб (xleb)

Serbian: хлеб (hleb)

Slovak: chlieb

Ukrainian: хліб (xlib)

Upper Sorbian: chlěb


The only exceptions I can think of:
Croatian: kruh
Slovenian: kruh
Polabian: stajba

Regards,
Reinhard/Ron
Seattle, USA

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