Re: [tied] -st

From: Joao
Message: 34910
Date: 2004-10-30

There is also *o-zdo- "branch"
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From: tgpedersen
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: [tied] -st



  It seems that apart from Skt. 'ni:d.รก', the IE (*ni "down" +
*sd "sit" >) *nizdo "nest" word is exclusively Germanic, Italic and
Celtic. Makes one wonder if the frequent -st suffix of Nordwestblock
names is also zero grade of *s-d- (for semantics, cf
Russian 'sosed' "neighbour"). In that case, those names should be IE
Nordwestblock, or?
I seem to recall there was at least one other IE composite word with
zero grade *s-d-, but I can't remember which?

Torsten