[tied] Re: PIE 'brow'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> > From: whetex_lewx [mailto:whetex_lewx@...]
>
> > > <bry~z^is> '?'
> > > (Girdenis's
> > > example, but I don't know the word)
> >
> > I know this word, it's well known, it's strange that you dont

know

> > it `,:-| ???
>
> I've polled about ten of my colleagues now (all native speakers

from various

> parts of Lithuania, one of them with a bachelor degree in

Lithuanian

> philology). None of them is aware of <bry~z^is> (everyone is aware

of

> <bre:~z^is> 'scratch, notch; line', of course), so a natural

lexicographer's

> question to you would be: where are you from in Lithuania?
>
> Sergei

I know this word well, since young days, this is not popular in my
language, my mother (East-Auxtaitian) was using this sometimes, also
it sounds for me so Lithuanian and i "feel" its meaning. My native
dialect is North-Samogitian (Maz^eikis^kiu,) (of father), i'm living
in Klaipe:^da, and here are a lot of kin (from Father's side), but i
think bryz^is is from East-Lithuania.