Reconstruction talk:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ránkāˀ

Etymology
from 🇨🇬,, derived from the zero grade of the stem. The original meaning was therefore “bent, bending (organ, limb).” In 🇨🇬, the initial *w was lost, while in some other languages it became *b

Zezen (talk) 10:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)


 * Which languages do you mean by "some other languages"? If *w was lost in Baltic and is apparently also absent in Slavic, there are no other members left in Balto-Slavic that your statement could refer to. 86.6.108.34 11:38, 2 December 2021 (UTC)
 * That is a good question. I wrote (pasted) the above in 2016 and do not remember now wherefrom.
 * I have thus checked my recent 2021 comments in the diff:
 * curprev 22:48, 26 November 2021‎ Zezen  talk contribs‎  972 bytes +235‎  →‎Etymology: Copying fuller ety from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roka#Etymology undo Tag: 2017 source edit
 * and indeed, this claim, together with cf. 🇨🇬 was removed in this diff.
 * Let me fix it also here then. Thanks, IP! Zezen (talk) 20:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)