Slavic and Anglo-Germanic Phonetic and Semantic Counterparts
Posted: Saturday, April 02, 2011
by IvanPetryshyn
Ivan Petryshyn
The state of the Modern Indo-European Languages, though distant in time and space, still allows us to phonetically identify the mutual phonetic and semantic counterparts. Having analysed some Ukrainian, Polish and Russian homolexemes, we came to the following conclussion:
1. the Slavic KOSYT/KOSITS'/KOSIT= Anglo-Germanic CAST, as in kosyty/kosic'/kasit'=> cast ( with the meaning of putting aside);
3. PROSYT/PROSIC'/PRASIT' = QUEST;
4. VOZYT/WOZIC'/VAZIT'//VEZT/WIEZ'C'/VEZT'= *WEGT/WAG (as in "Wagen");
5. HROZYT/GROZIC'/GRAZIT'= *THREAST/THREAT (in the meaning of "bedrohen" (Cf.: with the Slavic "bodriti");
6. ROSYTY/ROSIC'/RASIT'= *DREWST (dew), also as in "TAUST");
7. LOZHYT/L'OZHYC'/LAZHIT'= LEGT/LAY/LIE ( from *"leggen/lagen" - the palatalized prototypes);
8. MOZHIT'/MOC/MOHT/MOCH' = MOEGT/MAY ( as in "moegen/*magen" => English -the palatalized prototype);
9. MELITI/MOLOT/MIELIC'/MALOT'//MLATITI/MOLOC'/MALAT' => MILL ( VERB=>NOUN);
The same correllation, can be found in VOLITI/VOLIT/WOLIC'/=> WILL (V=>V);
and KOLITI/KOLIC'/KALOT'=> KILL;
10. A somewhat different variation can be traced in LELITI/LELITY/LIELIEYAT'=> *LIKK(EN)=> LIKE ( as also in the word "LYAL'KA/LALKA");
11. SELITI/SELYT/SIELIC'/SIELIT' => SETTLE: SELT=>SETTL
12. TELITI/TELYTY/CIELIC'/=> CATTLE: TELET=> CATTLE
13. CELITI/TSILYT/CIELIC'/CELIT'=> German ZIELE: TSELI=> ZIELE
Cf.: CENITI/TSINYT/CENIC'/TSENIT'=> ZAHLEN: TSENET=> ZAHLEN
14. BAZHATI/BAZHATY=> WUENSCHEN/*WI(N)SK/JEN=WI(N)SH(Engl.): BAZH=>WUENSCH/WINSH;
14. VAZHITI/VAZHYTY/WAZHYC'/VAZHYT'=> WAGEN//*WEIGHEN=>WEIGH/WEIGHT: VAZH=>WAG/WEIGH;
13. KAZATI/KAZAT/KAZAC'=> SAGEN//SAY (*SAEGGEN) - a reversed-oder vocabular coinage: K-Z-T/C' <=> ZAGEN/SAY;
14. But some of the correspondences can only approximately resemble the initial mutual lexemes:
LAZITI/LAZYT/LAZIC'=> CRAWL//*KRAWLEN, like *(G)LAZIT- Cf. : GLADE/GLIDE.
Conclusion:
1. The old Anglo-Germanic 2/3-syllable words, still existing in Slavic Languages (sometimes encountered in German, too) have been shortened to 1-syllable ones still preserving the phonetic and even the semantic stereotype;
2. The Slavic vowel O corresponds to A/E/I in Germanic languages confirming the older characteristics of the I-E Languages, those of stability of vowels, their strong and weak positions, while the Slavic Languages underwent the processes of assimilation, accomodation and, especially, that of palatalization which was less significant in the Germanic Languages, an, even if it was, the palatalization had different regularities and procedures.
3. The Phonetic processes of the 2 major groups of the I-E Languages confirm and prove the conclusions made earlier in our Academic Paper "Consonant-Vowel Interdependence in Sinhala"/"Vowel Harmony in Sinhala", the language mentioned being one of the represantatives of the I-E Languages.
IVAN PETRYSHYN USA
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