Talk:płynąć

Etymology

I humbly propose Appendix:Proto-Indo-European/plew-#Root

Zezen (talk) 18:32, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

On what grounds? —CodeCat 18:40, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

And here you got me stumped, as our Russian colleagues keep mum about it. For a while, as I found this, which I will use for the temp edit. I hope it shall flow towards *plew, don't you concur? Zezen (talk) 18:49, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

That just says that it comes from *plynǫti (but you'd have to find other descendants beyond Polish), which is derived from *plyti. The question, then, is where that comes from. —CodeCat 18:55, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

I removed the etymology because it's not yet established that *plynǫti existed in Proto-Slavic. So far, we only have Polish as a "descendant", which isn't enough. I've created an entry for *plyti though. —CodeCat 19:04, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

1. Well, *plyti is a start, shall we link it then?

2. Have you thought of the iterative kląć vs. perfective klnąć pairs etc. for the etymological analogy to explain the missing (?) link ? (if I understand you correctly here).

3. BTW, do you speak Slavic languages? cf plyn in Czech, plavati in Slovak and Russian, pływać in Polish, etc.: there are cognates galore.

4. "The question, then, is where that comes from. " - well from the famous contested PIE *plo ;), n'est-ce pas? (Again: if I get your drift correctly)

5. In the meantime, I shall start work on the curiously related flaming płonąć, then, so that you can critique it too, oh CodeCa. Zezen (talk) 19:32, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

CodeCat may not speak Slavic but has been good with Slavic language etymologies, didn't mix up all Slavic languages and didn't make so many mistakes and wrong assumptions in one post. Sorry, I don't trust your judgement.--Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:00, 30 January 2016 (UTC)