FW: [SEELANGS] pronun. of "Medvedev" (cont.)

[Hugh Olmsted]

Jules is right' that's exactly what it is.

Hugh Olmsted


On Mar 2, 2008, at 6:25 PM, Jules Levin wrote:

> At 11:56 AM 3/2/2008, you wrote:
>> Jerry Katsell wrote:
>>> Of course, on the morphemic level, the poor beast can no longer  
>>> "know
>>> the honey"
>> [Encoding = Unicode UTF-8]
>>
>> He doesn't have to; he only needs to eat the honey. Medved' < med  
>> + Š + ěd, with the last root meaning "eat" and the whole word  
>> apparently a substitute for the original Indo-European word for  
>> "bear," which had become taboo.
>>
>> Bob Rothstein
>
> wouldn't it better be [better bee?] medu- + e...?  Cf. Lith medus
> Thus the 'v' would be a vestige of the original -u stem
> The stem vowel is routinely (about 50% of the time I believe)  
> preserved in such compounds in CSLi, so that wouldn't be
> a problem.
>
> Jules Levin
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