Reconstruction talk:Proto-Balto-Slavic/ránkāˀ

Etymology

from Latvian *wrenk-, *wronk-, derived from the zero grade *wr- of the stem *wer- (“to turn, to bend”). The original meaning was therefore “bent, bending (organ, limb).” In Baltic, the initial *w was lost, while in some other languages it became *b

Zezen (talk) 10:58, 4 February 2016 (UTC)

Which languages do you mean by "some other languages"? If *w was lost in Baltic and is apparently also absent in Slavic, there are no other members left in Balto-Slavic that your statement could refer to. 86.6.108.34 11:38, 2 December 2021 (UTC)

That is a good question. I wrote (pasted) the above in 2016 and do not remember now wherefrom.

I have thus checked my recent 2021 comments in the diff:

• curprev 22:48, 26 November 2021‎ Zezen talk contribs‎  972 bytes +235‎  →‎Etymology: Copying fuller ety from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/roka#Etymology undo Tag: 2017 source edit

and indeed, this claim, together with cf. Latin branca (“paw, foot”) was removed in this diff.

Let me fix it also here then. Thanks, IP! Zezen (talk) 20:10, 2 December 2021 (UTC)