Re: [tied] -st

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 8:28 AM

Subject: [tied] -st

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@......> wrote:
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> > Estonian istuda, to sit, asuda, to live (in location), asendada, to
> > position, all go back to Uralic *ase, to become positioned/to
> > position.  We could perhaps speculate (as above) and compare PIE
> > *h1es- be (situated).  This is starting to look like a topic for
> > Nostratic-L.
> >
>
> Before I'm kicked over there, I hastily add: Arabic satuN,
> istuN "nates" (Møller), plus more that means "seat" etc.
>

From Pulleyblank: Historical and Prehistorical Relationships of Chinese

"
Pokorny derives the Germanic words for 'west' from a root *wes-, found
in Skt. aváh. 'downward', but this is an extension of *we- 'ooff,
down, found in Skt. áva "down, off". This suggests that 'west' comes
from *we- 'down' + *sed- 'sit'.
"

Or *sth2 ?

 

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Patrick:

 

Torsten, you cannot just play with something that has a coronal: it is either *d or *t or *t(h).

 

But, that aside, my hypothesis on *wes- is that it means 'web'.

 

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