User talk:Dušan Kreheľ

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Latest comment: 1 year ago by Dušan Kreheľ in topic Source of etymologies?
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You're making a lot of mistakes. Please read the pages linked to above so you understand what you're doing. Chuck Entz (talk) 22:07, 20 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

Source of etymologies?

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Hello, Dušan! May I ask where you are taking these etymologies for Proto-Slavic terms like *korkъ (leg)? You've provided as its origin Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (pebble), which matches neither phonetically, nor semantically. Is that your own interpretation or you've read it somewhere? 2A00:23C7:9C97:8201:F107:5334:4B00:A2EA 09:05, 28 May 2023 (UTC)Reply

@2A00:23C7:9C97:8201:F107:5334:4B00:A2EA: Own "research". Just as a cubit, an inch are a unit of distance, so it is both a stone (a small stone, a large stone or a stone like a mountain/hill). Transferred semantics and syntax similar to Slavic languages from Central Europe: krok → *korkъ → *ḱorkeh₂. Dušan Kreheľ (talk) 09:34, 28 May 2023 (UTC)Reply