From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 20300
Date: 2003-03-24
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From: "alex_lycos" <altamix@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] slavic zidU
> hmm.. do not make me be more suspicious I already am. If the word zidU is not known in the north and west Slavic it is very possible we have here again a Thracian word. Someone want to convince me that there should be possible a metathesis in the word "-dizos", kind of dizos zidos, but a such metathesis should be very unusual (in my opinion) and not the normally metathesis of the liquids. It doesn't matter how appetising should be the idea, I still cannot find any justify for accepting this supposed metathesis in dizos > zidos.
The verb is common Slavic; it's only the noun <zidU> that doesn't seem to occur in the north (not in Polish at any rate). Whatever the origin of *zIdati/*ziz^do~, it has Baltic cognates (Lith z^iesti 'form') and therefore we can rule out a Thracian loan. Anyway, *dHeig^H- is a common PIE root, so even if we are dealing with an irregularly metathesised form, the metathesis dates back to Proto-Balto-Slavic.
Piotr