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A few words of delight

Author(s) -

Eric P. Hamp

Publication year - 2005

Publication title -

juznoslovenski 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

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