Alex rambles:
>Piotr, does any root you remember of looks like *ped-, *pad- and
>fits semanticaly with forest? the *ped= feet shouldn't fit:)
The root is actually *pod- (acc. *pod-m), hence English /foot/
and Greek /pous/, with a weak case form *ped- (*ped-om "of the
feet"). The Latin form has e-grade throughout only because
of analogical spread.
- gLeN
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