Geiss [Re: correction]

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tolgs001" <george.st@...> wrote:

> Miguel wrote:
>
> >Latin <haedus> obviously comes from *ghaidos, just
> >like Goth. gaits, E. goat, Du. geit, German
> >(dial.) Geiss.
>
> e Geiß or Geiss, "female goat," is actually pan-German.
> (In some Alpine regions also dialectal variants such as
> Goaß/Goass, Gees and Gääss.). Further meaning: "webliches
> Tier vom Gems-, Stein- und Rehwild" (says Wahrig).
>
> Etym.: according to Wahrig, < OHG geiz. Akin to das
> Kitz < OHG diminutival chizzi/kizzi(n) < Germanic
> *kittina < Germanic *kidja, influenced by Germanic
> *gaitina < PIE *ghaidino-
>

Let me summarise: for goat there are the PIE roots *h2aig^-, *ghaed-
and *ghit- (?), and some similar ones in Semitic, and they are
definitely not related?

Torsten