Balto-Slavic *wepriyo- "boar"

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Authors	BLAŽEK Václav
Year of publication	2010
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Baltistica
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Arts
Citation
Field	Linguistics
Keywords	Balto-Slavic etymology; prefixation; sandhi;
Description	In the article the old problem of the initial w- in the Balto-Slavic isogloss wepriyo- "boar" is analyzed. After the discussion of the previous etymological attempts, a new solution is proposed, based on the phenomenon of sandhi.
Related projects:	The Centre for the Interdisciplinary Research of Ancient Languages and Older Stages of Modern Languages