Re: -st

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:

> 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'?

Okay. Does *putós come from *pewt-ó- or *pew-t-ó-? The latter term
seems to have _four_ non-vocalic (by the time of 'classical' IE)
phonemes: *kwts-. Is that from an extended root *kewt-s- or a doubly
extended one *kew-t-s-?

- Rob