Re: -st

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 34915
Date: 2004-10-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> How do you derive 'vulva' from 'buttocks'?

I've checked EIEC (p. 507). Besides *(h1)pisd-o/eh2-, for two more
words both 'anus' and 'vulva' meanings are reconstructed there
(*putós and *kutsós ~ *kutsnós). Probably, the motivation was the
fact that both are incidentally 'holes'?

Sergei