Re: woad

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Tavi" <oalexandre@...> wrote:

> I regard these formations as being parallel
> to the Baltic outputs of "PIE" *k´wei-t-
> 'white', e.g. Lithuanian svitra-s
> 'sand; glass; sandpaper'.

For what it's worth, Lith. <s^vìtras> means 'emery (paper)' (note the hyphens in 'Sand-, Glas-, Schmirgelpapier'), i.e. 'what is used to make things glossy, shiny'. No words meaning 'glass' or 'sand' in this nest in Lithuanian.

Sergei