Re: [tied] *steigH-

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2002 11:10 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] *steigH-


The root is *steigH- 'step up, stride, climb' as in Ger.
steigen or Eng. stile (OE stigel). There are quite a number of
Satem cognates, e.g. Slavic *stIg-/*stIdz- (the palatalisation
here is Slavic, not Satem), Lith. stiga 'path', Skt. stighnoti
'mount', Alb. shteg- 'path, way' < *stoigH-o-s.

Piotr

[Moeller]
interesting. In this case Iask myslef which should be the
connection af another romanian word from the semantic point of
view.
The word is "stihie" , pl=stihii, comme from slav "stihija"
and would means kinda "bad and malicious spirits with very big
power"...