Re: [tied] slavic zidU

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

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"

<dmilt1896@...>

> wrote:
>
> > From an archaeological point of view, what are the implications

of

> the root *dHeig^H-, which seems to basically refer to molding of

clay

> or dough, giving rise to words meaning "wall"? Persian makes

sense,

> if it doesn't go back beyond the time they settled down in

villages,

> but what about Slavic and Baltic?
>
> Wattle-and-daub constructions (for which terms derived from

*dHeig^H-

> seem to be appropriate) were used since the early Neolithic in
> practically all the regions where we could expect to find speakers

of

> IE languages. Even during their "unsettled" episode the early
> Iranians had at least temporary villages and were seasonal
> transhumant semi-nomads rather than tent-dwelling riders

permanently

> on the move. There is a common Indo-Iranian word for 'brick',

after

> all.
>
> Piotr

Good enough. Mann windet ein Wand, and then has to daub it to
keep the wind and rain out (although German 'teigen" seems to be
restricted to the baker's trade).
Pokorny under *dheig^h- (384) notes "Eine umgestellte Form
(*g^heidh-) ist wahrscheinlich lit. z^iedz^iu\, z^ie~sti `formen',
alit.puod-z^idys `To"pfer', aksl. ziz^do,, züdati `bauen', züdú,
zidú `Mauer, Wand' (Bu:ga Kalba ir s. 184 f)." And (just for Alex)
he does have thrak. '-dizos' "Burg".
Dan