Re: slavic zidU

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Piotr Gasiorowski"
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel J. Milton"

<dmilt1896@...>

> wrote:
>
> > From an archaeological point of view, what are the implications

of

> the root *dHeig^H-, which seems to basically refer to molding of

clay

> or dough, giving rise to words meaning "wall"? Persian makes

sense,

> if it doesn't go back beyond the time they settled down in

villages,

> but what about Slavic and Baltic?
>
> Wattle-and-daub constructions (for which terms derived from

*dHeig^H-

> seem to be appropriate) were used since the early Neolithic in
> practically all the regions where we could expect to find speakers

of

> IE languages. Even during their "unsettled" episode the early
> Iranians had at least temporary villages and were seasonal
> transhumant semi-nomads rather than tent-dwelling riders

permanently

> on the move. There is a common Indo-Iranian word for 'brick', after
> all.

If IE had an i-infix, which it doesn't, one could relate
German 'reichen' to all the "rule" words from *reg^-. Also, one could
relate *dHeig^H- to the "earth" word *dHeg^H-. But perhaps the
variations just tell us they are loan words?

cf L. Sagart:
Sino-Tibeto-Austronesian: An Updated and Improved Argument

root 17
-taq "earth" Proto-Austronesian or Proto East Malayo-Polynesian
3tha? "earth" Old Chinese
'dag pa "mud" Tibetan

Torsten