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.
>
> Alex

Dear Alex,
Accept You or not, it's not supposed metathesis, but true
metathesis. And I doubt that we have to deal with persian word
diz "castle, fortress" (cf. dizdar "commander of the fortress" from
present stem of verb dashten "to hold", like bayrakdar "flagholder",
etc.). The same word we see also in paradise (*deigh- 'to form, to
build', Watkins).
I hope I have not disappointed You.

Regards
Abdullah Konushevci