Re: May you all...
From: | Elliott Lash <al260@...> |
Date: | Friday, February 8, 2002, 20:02 |
Jonathan Knibb <jonathan_knibb@...> writes:
> And Czech bílý / Polish bialy / Russian bjelij even better! Without
> wishing to spark off another guest-host-type discussion, do our resident
> PIE experts have anything to say on the Romance-Slavic connection here?
Well, actually French "blanc" and all of the other words similar to it in Spanish
"blanco", and Italian "bianco" come from Germanic, so if anything there would
be a Germanic-Slavic connection..but i doubt that this is a case of that.
Elliott Lash
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