Is it just a pun or a real question ;)? If
the latter as well, there is some indirect but good evidence such as the
behaviour of *-zd-j- in derivatives (different from that of *-sIdj-). The
quantity of the vowel in Slavic (*pizda < *pi:sda:) is somewhat problematic.
Non-Slavic cognates show a short vowel. Some people (including Werner Winter
himself) regard the Slavic length as due to "Winter's Law", but it I'm not
convinced that an intervening *-s- would allow *-d- to lengthen the vowel. Maybe
after all the noun is derived from *pizd-a-ti , the Slavic iterative of
*pIzd-E-ti 'fart (softly but malodorously)', related to PIE *pezd-.
Piotr
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Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 5:01 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: The sexual life of the IEs
Fare the well, my good old etymology... Still I'm curious,
why you
are so sure there's no I in there?