Re: [tied] Re: PIE comparative

On 2006-01-21 05:32, Peter P wrote:

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

> Estonian, istuda, to sit (Finnish istua, to sit)
>
> the root is 'is-', quite possibly an early borrowing from PIE *es-, sit.
>

Do you happen to know the origin of the Finnish locational/collective
suffix -sto/ö, as in <kirjasto> 'library' (from <kirja> 'book)?

Piotr