From: Pavel Iosad (pavel_iosad@mail.bg)
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 20:42:52 EST
Hello,
>> > "Wesó£" is straighty borrowed from Polish.
>>
>> What's the etymology?
> I don't know exactly. Unfortunately, over the years I had gathered a nicelist
> of Common Slavic roots, but not-so-long-ago I accidentally deleted it. There
> Must be a back-up somewhere, but I haven't found it yet.
> I guess the Common Slavic form must be *veselU (the longer form being
> *veselUjI), hence the Romanian form "vesel".
Yep.
> But I have no idea from what Indo-European root it derives.
Vasmer says *vesu-, cf. Skr. _vásu_, Avestan _vanhu_, OIr. _fíu_.
Pavel
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