Re: s->h
- From: "Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 17 Feb 2007 08:37:57 -0800
Thanks Keith,
Have I understood well? You are saying that Russian 'мох'(moh)
originally sounded as 'mos' and you proposed the fallowing sound
changes: mos => moh => (RUKI rule) mišistiy (palatalization); am I
right?
Let us first see, do we understand the same thing under "ruki-rule"
notion? The RUKI rule describes the diachronic shift in the satem
group of Indo-European languages in which Proto-Indo-European (PIE )
*s (dental or alveolar) following */r, u, k and i/ became /∫/ (palato-
alveolar) in Baltic and Iranian, / x/ (glottal) in Slavic and
retroflex /ş/ in Old Indic.
In this moment I will not go far from the word ‘moss’. The Serbian
words 'muha' (fly, gnat; (Skt. maksa, Avestan muso, Lith. musse, OCS
muha)) and 'mišić/miš' (muscle; mouse; Skt. mus, OPers. mu∫, OCS
mišica, miš – muscle, mouse, Latin mus, musculus) seem to be quite
appropriate examples for the examination of the RUKI rule's validity.
Obviously, in above case, Pedersen started from the preconception that
Sanskritic vocabulary must be diachronically older than Slavic and
therefore he thought that 'mus' was the zero grade of the word 'mouse'
and 'muscle'. In reality, the original root of the words 'moss',
'mouse' and 'muscle' was MGN (I do not use vowels here because they
are of no big importance for the understanding of the IE speech
development).
According to my Xurbelanum theory, the ur-basis of the words I
mentioned above was UM-GON or reverse GON-UM, where syllable UM
denotes the human and divine mind, while GON signifies any kind of
movement (motion). The process of thinking was understood by ancient
man as a sort of thought hunting (a constant movement); there fore we
have words as 'mind', Serb. 'mnjenje' (opinion), 'znanje' (knowledge),
'mozak' (brain), 'mozganje' (thinking), 'misao' (thought), Greek
νομίζω (think), γνώμη (opinion GON-UM), Latin cognomen (surname,
family name, name), English 'name' etc.
Actually, the ancient man instinctively connected all kind of motions
with a universally spread mind (something close to Leibniz's
monadology (http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/leibniz/
monad.htm), erstwhile with the mind of a supernatural being (god). Not
incidentally, for the old Greeks, the river Oceanos, flowing around
the Earth, was the generation of all, including time itself. Also, it
is not incidentally that Serbs 'umivaju' ('umiti' - lave, wash one's
face and hands) their faces in order to refresh the mind and memory
(Serb. um = mind).
We can see that Serbian words 'maknuti' (move, remove, dislocate),
'micanje' (movement), 'mućenje' (turbidity), 'mučenje' (torture),
'mucanje' (stammer), 'majka' (mother), 'maca' (cat, mice),
'miš' (mouse) etc., are non-breaking parts of the above-mentioned
"mind-generator".
The most important generator of human mind is mother (Serb. majka,
mater) who is giving birth to the new human souls (minds; majka from
basis UM-GON mind-driving and mater from UM-HOR; i.e. um-ker, um-ćer,
um-ter also mind-driving or mind-pushing). I must remark here that
Serbian word 'majka', in South-Serbian dialects, has the meaning
"female parent of an animal, especially domestic livestock and cat",
and that explains the origin of the words 'mačka' (cat) and
'maca' (kitten). Finally, if we compare the Serbian word
'maca' (kitten) with the English 'mice' we will be able to grasp where
the name like 'miš' (mouse) appeared from.
On the other side, UM-GON is a big mental power that is called MOĆ in
Serbian (English might, German Macht, Greek μεγά- big, Latin magnus).
Of course, there is no clear visible logical bond between Serbian
'moć' and the word 'mah-ovina' (Russ. moh, Eng. moss) as it is in case
of the words 'maknuti' (move, remove, dislocate), 'micati' (move) and
'mišići' (muscles), a complex of the contractile organs of the body,
which role is just to move its own organism in different directions or
to set other things in motion; naturally, under control of mind!
In order to explain the origin of the Serbian word 'mahovina' (Russ.
moh, Eng. moss) we must find out what is the one of the main physical
characteristics of moss. Is it not the extraordinary softness of that
plant?
"A little patch of dark-green moss/ Whose softness grew of quiet ways/
(With all its deep, delicious floss)/ In slumb'rous suns of summer
days", says the poet (Henry Kendall - "Mountain Moss").
Now we shall see that the Serbian word 'mek' or 'mekan' has the
meaning 'soft', and it becomes clear that 'mek' was the source of
'moh' (mah, moss). Nevertheless, what the Serbian word 'mek' (soft;
cf. English 'meek' "meek as a mouse") has to do with the above-
mentioned UM-GON, might and mental power? At first sight, it seems
nothing but if we had considered this matter more carefully we would
have realized that Serbian 'mek' is related to the verb
'umakati' (immersion; cf. above 'umiti' wash face) and 'mečiti' (Serb.
'umečiti' imprint, impress, make an impression on a soft surface as if
of plasticine, mud, gum etc.). In fact, the Serbian verb
'umečiti' (imprint, impress) is the same word as 'maknuti' (move,
remove, dislocate) and it is completely transparent down to the UM-GON
basis.
I think the above analyses is more than enough to prove that RUKI rule
cannot be applied to Slavic, because there were no possibilities for s
=> h sound changes.
Evidently, I could extend this study almost in infinity, but I must
reduce it or have it in an "abbreviated' form, simply because the time
is a limiting factor. I wrote the word 'abbreviate' purposely for the
reason that the Serbian words 'prebiti' (beat up, break in two halves)
and 'previti' (fold, wrap) were examples of b > v shift.
There are also words as 'probiti' (break through) and
'praviti' (create, build, make). The basis of all this words is BEL-
HOR-BEL-GON basis, where from we get the Serbian words as
'porobljavanje'/ 'porobljenje' (servitude), 'pravljenje' (making,
building, creation). Logically observed, 'probijanje' (break through)
and 'porobljenje' (enslaving) are the two of the main conditions that
must be fulfilled in order to make a certain job done (building,
tunnel, bridge, house or any other object of human creation – Serbian
'pravljenje'). In addition, it would be interesting to say that the
Serbian verb 'praviti' served as a "groundwork" for other Serbian
words with different but close and coherent explainable words:
'pravo' (law), 'pravo' (right out; 'probijanje' a direct breaking
through), 'pravo' (correctly), 'pravda' (justice). The path which
breaks through (Serb. probija) the top of mountain has its name
'prevoj' in Serbian. All these examples show that Serbian language
used b > v shift in order to make "notion distinctions": probiti,
porobiti, praviti, proboj, prevoj, pravo, pravda etc.
More b > v examples: Serb. obala (coast) => 'uvala' (valley),
'obaliti' (cast, hurl) => 'valjati' (roll, waltz!, Serb. valja se =
valse?), 'z-boriti' (speak) => go-voriti' (speak), 'bariti' (poach,
cook) => variti (weld, digest, cook), 'oblačenje' (clothing) =>
'uvlačenje' (indenting, prowl; this prowl is close to the Serbian
'provl-ačenje' (getting by, escape potentially unpleasant
consequences); 'sabijati' (compress), 'savijati' (flexure, bow) etc.
Regards,
Dušan
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