Re: [tied] Re: Enclosed Places (was: The unexplained link between G

16-07-03 19:29, alex wrote:

> forget this one for "grãdiSte". The semantic meaning is so far away
> fromt the Slavic one, you wont belive it. and if "ina" is a Slavic
> suffix, then all IE suffixes are comming from Slavic:-)

[sigh] OK, so you _are_ incorrigible. And the metathesis can just be
ignored, I suppose.

> Piotr , in how far you see the relation of Slavic "graZdI" with "gorod"?

It's from *gord-jI, <z^d> being the normal reflex of *dj in OCS. Cf. Old
Polish grodza 'enclosure, fence' < *gord-ja.

Piotr