PIE terms for sexual organs [was: Re: -st]

From: Abdullah Konushevci
Message: 34921
Date: 2004-10-30

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
<S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:
> >
> > 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-?
> >
>
> I can't answer these questions -- it's out of my competence.
Anybody?
>
> Sergei
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As far as we know there is verbal root *pezd- 'to fart', synonimic
with *perd- 'id.'. Suffixed form *pezd-i yields Alb. pith ~ pidhi,
due to -eCC- > -iCC- (cf. *bhendh- > Alb. bind, ghend- > gjind-,
*g^hrezd/*g^herzd- > drithë etc.). It yields Eng. <feist> and
<fisten> 'to fart', Lat. pedere.

Konushevci