Re: PIE comparative

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

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> There remains then to find IE roots for the first elements. But
> there is no guarantee, cf Estonian istu- "stand". I vaguely recall
> Möller having a Semitic cognate too.
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Estonian, istuda, to sit (Finnish istua, to sit)

the root is 'is-', quite possibly an early borrowing from PIE *es-, sit.

Peter P