West bird

> There is no trace of PIE *ni- or *ve- in the Chinese morpheme.
> Perhaps this is what happened: pre-PIE *sad- (> PIE *sed-) is a word
> loaned with 'chicken tecnology' (which came the same way) and
> meant "west" and "roost". To disambiguate, PIEers added a prefix:
> *ni-zd- "down-sit" -> "nest", *we-zd- "away-sit" -> "west".

And BTW how come the very early PIE compounds *ni-zd- "nest", *o-zd-
"branch" both have to do with birds, not just "sit"?


Torsten