Re: PIE comparative

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:

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

wrote:

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> > There remains then to find IE roots for the first elements. But
> > there is no guarantee, cf Estonian istu- "stand". I vaguely recall
> > Möller having a Semitic cognate too.
> >
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> Estonian, istuda, to sit (Finnish istua, to sit)
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> the root is 'is-',

In what sense is the root 'is-'?

quite possibly an early borrowing from PIE *es-, sit.

I thought Estonian asu- "be situated" would fit that better?


Torsten