Talk:rast

Latvian etymology

Dear Pereru (talk • contribs), please tell me where did you take cognates with Russian "расти"? I don't see anything on the pages 105-106. Soshial (talk) 12:59, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

Hi Soshial (talk • contribs). Pages 105-106 of what book? I use K. Karulis' Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca; the article on rast is on pp. 738-739. On p.739, the text reads: No ide. *u̯erdh- : *u̯redh- 'augt' (which is one of the two stems which merged into Latvian rast) arī kr. расти (rasti) (ssl. rasti), p. rość, si. várdhati, vr̥dháti 'aug, palielinās, pavairojas', gr. orthós 'stāvs, taisns, pareizs'. That's where I got the connection to Russian расти (rasti) from. (Note that, since Karulis claims Latvian rast resulted from a merging of two stems, then the Russian term is cognate only via one of these two stems, not the other.) --Pereru (talk) 20:18, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

I have Karulis etymological dictionary as well (Riga, 1992). Does it have different versions? My question emerged after this: Russian word расти has no connection with Latvian rast (see ru:расти), while обрести has (ru:обретать). Soshial (talk) 22:03, 12 November 2013 (UTC)