Re: [tied] -st-suffix in PIE

On Wed, 7 Nov 2001 10:04:48 +0200, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

>I thank one and all who kindly helped me to get this henny business off
>the ground. Now we have four possible etymologies - and this is
>promising, I guess. Here's the fifth (!):
>
>why not just a regular deverbal adjective < *wis-to'- (resp. -tah2),
>where *wis- < *weis- is the same as in Lith. vei~sti 'to breed'. Hen is
>often a fertility symbol.

Did anyone mention the etymology proposed in e.g. C.D. Buck's
dictionary, *wik^-tah2 (Mühl.-Endz. 1.585), "house (bird)"?

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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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