From: johnvertical@...
Message: 65841
Date: 2010-02-11
> > ies < considered Slavic; clearly IE anyway ("yoke")That's Finnic *ikes, not *ees - cf. Estonian _ike_.
>
> It isn't the 'yoke' word (Slavic *jIgo), but the Slavic word for
> 'wagon shaft, tongue (of a vehicle)', an original s-stem neuter
> (Slavic *oje/*ojes-).
> Piotr