Re: s->h


"Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vukotic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote...
On Feb 17, 8:21 pm, "Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>>> "Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote...

>>>>> I would like to here from the high educated people on sci.lang, >>>>> what
>>>>> is connection (if any) among Spanish 'pasado', Serbian
>>>>> 'pohoditi' (poći. pošao; set off, go off, post off),

[...]

Serbian prefix 'po-' shows that you have no idea what really happened
to the words you mentioned above.

So what _really_ happened? Do tell! In Russian, xodit' is "go, walk", and most of the standard prefixes can be added -- for example, byxodit' to go out, doxodit' to reach, zaxodit' to call on, naxodit' to find, prixodit' to arrive, proxodit' to go past, uxodit' to go away, and (surprise, surprise!) poxodit', to take a walk.

In Serbian, the cognate to Russian xodit' is hoditi. Since I don't speak Serbian, I don't _know_ that pohoditi is cognate with Russian poxodit', but you'll have to give me a pretty good argument to convince me otherwise.

Everyone can thumb through the books
or online dictionaries and find the articles about "history" of
'passus'.

I've certainly never come across an "article on the history of passus". I doubt if any journal would accept such an article, it's so trivial and obvious.

"Passus" is mentioned, along with a few thousand other words, in just about every book on IE historical linguistics. Big deal.

[...] the primeval syllables BEL-GON

What the *** is a "primeval syllable"????

[...]

Latin 'platea'

Borrowed from Greek <plateia>; it's a derivative of greek <platus>, cf Sanskrit prthu-, PIE *plth2us.

Be careful and do not rush with your answer John. Actually, I would
not be happy to see your "scientific" reputation completely ruined.
Nonetheless, you are not the moth-eaten Brian the Brain!

Neither Brian nor me have a "reputation" to be "ruined".

Though FWIW, I'd take Brian's word on Old Norse and on personal names in Germanic languages over anyone else's I know.

John.

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