Re: -st

From: tgpedersen
Message: 34931
Date: 2004-11-01

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
> <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
> > It's a commonly accepted etymology. One can try
to
> > remove 'buttocks' and derive 'vulva' directly from 'what one
sits
> > on', if he has trouble with 'buttocks'. At any rate, what is
your
> > etymology of BSl. *pi:zda: and Alb. <pidh>?
>
> I'm not disputing the etymology. I'm just curious as to how one
can
> go from 'buttocks' to 'vulva'. It doesn't seem like a vulva is
> really something that one sits upon.
>

cf. Dutch 'kont' "ass".

Torsten