Re: [tied] -st

> From Pulleyblank: Historical and Prehistorical Relationships of

Chinese

>
> "
> Pokorny derives the Germanic words for 'west' from a root *wes-,

found

> in Skt. aváh. 'downward', but this is an extension of *we-

'ooff,

> down, found in Skt. áva "down, off". This suggests that 'west'

comes

> from *we- 'down' + *sed- 'sit'.
> "
>
> Or *sth2 ?
>
>
> ***
> Patrick:
>
> Torsten, you cannot just play with something that has a coronal:

it is either *d or *t or *t(h).

>

*ni-zd- > nest, *o-zd- German Ast "branch"

> But, that aside, my hypothesis on *wes- is that it means 'web'.

Because?


Torsten

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