Re: [tied] tt/st/ss

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> Semantically, Germanic forms like OE wraxlian 'wrestle', wrigian 'turn,
> move', wrixl 'change' fit very well. The suffix -st(h2)-, whatever it
> is, occurs also in the Germanic and Balto-Slavic words for 'fist' and
> the Balto-Slavic 'finger' word (*pirs^ta- < *pr.sth2o-).

I forgot to add that the nasal stem *wri:x-an-/*wri:G-an- <
*wreik^-on- is attested in Germanic with the meaning 'wrist' (and
similar anatomical senses).

Piotr