Re: *gwistis

--- In cybalist@..., Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

>>They can't be, at any rate, if the latter is related to Goth.

gazds 'goad, prickle' and Eng. yard < PGmc. *gazd-j-o:n 'stick, rod'.

So "The American Heritage..." is wrong connecting Eng. yard with
Goth. gards and deriving it eventually from from *g(^)Her- 'enclose
etc'?

Sergei