Re: [tied] West bird

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

>
> On 2006-01-25 11:38, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > And BTW how come the very early PIE compounds *ni-zd- "nest", *o-

zd-

> > "branch" both have to do with birds, not just "sit"?
>
> A branch may be
> viewed as "sitting" on a tree trunk or a larger bough itself, as

well as

> being perched upon.
>

There's no way around assuming that the two are examples of the same
type of morphological construct, therefore, if a *ni-zd- is something
you sit down on, then an *o-zd- is something you sit on, not something
that sits on something else. And on branches not much else sits but
birds.


Torsten