Re: [tied] -st

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From: tgpedersen

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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 4:35 AM

Subject: Re: [tied] -st

>   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 ?
>
>   
>   ***
>   Patrick:
>
>   Torsten, you cannot just play with something that has a coronal:
it is either *d or *t or *t(h).
>
*ni-zd- > nest, *o-zd- German Ast "branch"

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

Because?


Torsten

 

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Patrick:

 

Although it probably would surprise many of us, a very substantial number of cultures around the world have visualized the sun as a spider.

 

Accordingly, at dawn and dusk, the visible striations in the sky were interpreted by these cultures as evidence of the web over which the spider traveled in the course of a day.

 

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