The Proto-Slavic etyma *dъska, *misa, and *bļudo (*bļudъ), which are semantically related, are generally regarded as borrowings, but there is no consensus on the exact origins of these nouns. ...Following surveys of the Old Church Slavic and Gothic evidence as well as of the distribution of the etyma in Slavic, the article discusses the merits and drawbacks of the various existing views. It is argued that *dъska, *misa are best regarded as borrowings from Vulgar Latin or Early Romance, while *bļudo (*bļudъ) must have been borrowed from Germanic, but not from Gothic or West Germanic.
William Riegel Schmalstieg, who was born in Sayre, Pennsylvania, held a position at the Department of Slavic of The Pennsylvania State University from 1964 to his retirement as a Sparks professor of ...Slavic and Baltic linguistics in 2001. Before he entered Breck School in Minnesota, which at the time was an Episcopal boys' school with a military curriculum, Bill had spent seven years in Vermillion, South Dakota, followed by two years in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1976a Studies in Old Prussian: A Critical Review of the Relevant Literature in the Field since 1945. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1976b An Introduction to Old Church Slavic. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 1983 Slavic kamy and mati: A structural view.
A survey of the phonological and accentological evidence confirms that in general the early Latvian borrowings from East Slavic belong to an older layer than the early borrowings found in Lithuanian. ...The differences between the Latvian and the Lithuanian sound substitutions may to a certain extent mirror variation within the East Slavic donor language. It is likely that the oldest layer must be dated before the rise of the East Baltic tonal systems.
This dictionary in the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series systematically and exhaustively deals with the Slavic inherited lexicon. It is unique in combining recent insights from the ...field of comparative Indo-European linguistics with modern Balto-Slavic accentology. In addition, the author makes an explicit attempt at reconstructing part of the Balto-Slavic lexicon.The entries of the dictionary are alphabetically arranged Proto-Slavic etyma. Each lemma consists of a number of fields which contain the evidence, reconstructions and notes. The introduction explains the contents and the significance of the individual fields. Here the reader can also find information on the various sources of the material. The volume concludes with an extensive bibliography of sources and secondary literature, and a word index.
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