Re: -st

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

>
>
> It seems that apart from Skt. 'ni:d.á', the IE (*ni "down" +
> *sd "sit" >) *nizdo "nest" word is exclusively Germanic, Italic and
> Celtic. Makes one wonder if the frequent -st suffix of

Nordwestblock

> names is also zero grade of *s-d- (for semantics, cf
> Russian 'sosed' "neighbour"). In that case, those names should be

IE

> Nordwestblock, or?
> I seem to recall there was at least one other IE composite word

with

> zero grade *s-d-, but I can't remember which?

There's a reconstructed morpheme/particle *ni in IE that means 'down'?

Your analysis strengthens my impression that *nísdos was earlier
*nisdós, an adjective formed from a supposed root noun *ni-sed-s.
Are there many other nouns formed this way in IE?

Would that Russian word come from IE, or is it a later formation? It
looks like it could be reconstructible for IE: ko- 'with' + sed-
'sit' = 'someone who sits down next to you' > 'companion'

> 'neighbor'? I *think* that would give Russian /sosed/.

The thing is, I wonder if words like that were late formations in
IE. That's because IE 'did not have preverbs or pre- or
postpositions, only adverbs (which became preverbs, etc., in the
individual languages)' (Beekes 1995: 167).

- Rob