Open AccessA few words of delight
Author(s) -
Eric P. Hamp
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
južnoslovenski filolog
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0763
pISSN - 0350-185X
DOI - 10.2298/jfi0561011h
Subject(s) - dissimilation , slavic languages , pleasure , suffix , etymology , linkage (software) , philosophy , linguistics , literature , theology , history , art , psychology , chemistry , biochemistry , neuroscience , gene
Lith. lokšniis "tender, etc" is traced back, by way of dissimilation, to *losk-snii-, derived with the adjectival suffix -snii-, productive in Baltic, from the I.-E. stem of Slavic laska, Lat. lasc-tvus, etc. In the second part of the paper the autor pleads for distinguishing, in Slavic between tgg'' "peace" = OLith. mieras, Latv. miers < Balto-Slavic *mei-ro "pleasure, leisure", akin to *mei-lo- "agreeable, kind", and tlg'' "κόσμος" < *"binding, linkage", to I.-E. *mei- "bind, link" in Skt. mitra- "friend" Avest. miθra- "contract", etc