Re: Slavic obscene words

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

>
> On 2008-01-19 22:57, ualarauans wrote:
> > --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> From *pes- "sex"
> >> Hence *pis-da > piz-da (assimilated)
> >
> > Slavic pisati "to piss", hence pis+da...
>
> Is there such a verb in Slavic? I thought it was a loan. Anyway, the
> derivation is unlikely because there is no trace of a yer in <pizda>,
> and the noun-forming suffix is *-Ida, not just *-da.

It's probably *pesida: > *peisda: > *pi:zda: related to words with
*pes+ 'swell'. *pes-xY-da:x > *pesida: and Greek pósthe: with xY>0
after another fricative causing aspiration on the following stop.
I've talked before about various e>o by plain P and round K.