Reconstruction talk:Proto-Slavic/stublь

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Origin from pIE *(s)tew- /to hit, to stroke/

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From what I found in the etymological dictionaries, it appears that *stublь and its derivatives descend from proto-Indo-European *(s)tew- (to hit, to push, to stroke) extended with -b-/-bʰ-. All sources which I found ultimately qoute Pokorny. Other proto-Slavic terms of this family are likely Proto-Slavic *stьvolъ (trunk), Proto-Slavic *studъ (cold), and Proto-Slavic *stuga (cavity, spout) (the last one is the origin of Old East Slavic стугна (stugna), Bulgarian стуглица (stuglica, spout within a tree) (dialectic) and is possibly related to Russian стыгнуть (stygnutʹ, to cool off), Polish stygnąć (to cool)). Apparently the semantic history of the term went from tool for pushing/hitting > erect, strict, hard > trunk/spout/cold. The problem is that no source clarifies whether the coda is pIE *-b- or pIE *-bʰ-, so I'm reluctant to add it. Bezimenen (talk) 16:29, 31 December 2018 (UTC)Reply