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Tue 7 Jan, 2020 07:33 pm
Are these Old English and Russian verbs have the same suffix?
cnāwan (у)знавать > знать
sēowan (за)шивать > шить
wāwan (раз)вевать > веять
? hēawan ковать > киянка (кий)
I mean,
Is Old English -wan a suffix like Russian -вать
or
Could Old English -w- be a "euphonic insertion" ?
Russian have
noun подаяние "alms",
but
some Old Slavic texts have
подаание "alms" instead ("a" is uniotated "я")
I mean "a" and "a" never got along together.