Re: PIE comparative

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

> >
> > Estonian, istuda, to sit (Finnish istua, to sit)
> >
> > the root is 'is-',
>
> In what sense is the root 'is-'?
>

Mordvin 'ozams' to become seated is considered a cognate, which points
to everything after *is- as being suffix. (sorry I forgot the * in
the original post)

> quite possibly an early borrowing from PIE *es-, sit.
>
> I thought Estonian asu- "be situated" would fit that better?
>

Or perhaps equally well, considering the meaning, be SIT-uated.

Estonian istuda, to sit, asuda, to live (in location), asendada, to
position, all go back to Uralic *ase, to become positioned/to
position. We could perhaps speculate (as above) and compare PIE
*h1es- be (situated). This is starting to look like a topic for
Nostratic-L.

>
> Torsten
>

Peter P