Re: tt/st/ss (was: Ariovistus)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:

> --- tgpedersen <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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

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

> > > > The problem is that Celtic, Germanic, Italic all
> > have -d + t-, dh
> > > > + t-, -t + t- > -ss- (OIr. fess, fiss
> > knowledge), not -st-

> > > the order was probably tt>st>ts>ss.

> > > or the order was restored at some morpheme
> > boundaries.

> > Example?

> --- Sean Whalen <stlatos@...> wrote:
> >
> > --- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

etc.

Also, though I don't agree with the derivation, I thought I'd
mention this as a possibility:

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

> > From the Perseus site:

> Falk & Torp
> "
> <toft> or <tofte>
> (danish = plot at a building, field near the farm outside the village
> community, plot for the house), Sw.dial. <toft>, Norw.dial. <tuft>,
> <toft> "plot for a house", ON <topt>, <tupt> id. (loaned to AS
> <toft> "plot"). Word is identical to <tomt>, qv.
>
> <tomt>, Sw. <tomt>, O.Sw. <tompt> next to <toft>, with which the word
> is probably identical; see <toft>. Germ. basic form *tumftô = IE *dm.p
> (e)dâ, cf Greek <dápedoon> "floor, plot" from *dm.-pedo-, Lith
> dimstis "farmyard, farm" from dm.pdti-. The word is composed of *dm.-
> weakest [zero] grade of *dem "house, building" (cf. <timber>) and
> *pedo- "plot, yard". The real meaning of <tomt> is thus <house plot>.