Re: [tied] Re: PIE vestuary

From: P&G
Message: 37542
Date: 2005-05-04

>> Linguistics can bring some clue to ellucidate IE vestuary? Any name
>> for skirts, shirts, tunics, dresses, or anything else?

There is a word for shoes : *ker(&)p.
Otherwise they must have been naked.
Or else they wore past participles, from verbs for
weaving: *weg *webh *bher
covering : *sk'ed *(s)keu *k'em *(s)kep *(s)teg
etc
Or else they committed ablaut, and made nouns from those verbs (e.g. toga)

Peter