Re: -st

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Rob" <magwich78@...> wrote:

>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Sergejus Tarasovas"
> <S.Tarasovas@...> wrote:
>
> > It's a commonly accepted etymology. One can try

to

> > remove 'buttocks' and derive 'vulva' directly from 'what one

sits

> > on', if he has trouble with 'buttocks'. At any rate, what is

your

> > etymology of BSl. *pi:zda: and Alb. <pidh>?
>
> I'm not disputing the etymology. I'm just curious as to how one

can

> go from 'buttocks' to 'vulva'. It doesn't seem like a vulva is
> really something that one sits upon.
>

cf. Dutch 'kont' "ass".

Torsten