Re: PIE comparative

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Peter P" <roskis@...> wrote:

>
> --- 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.
> >

Hm. In that case, why isn't *-d- in PIE *sed- (?< *h1sed-?) a suffix?


Torsten