OCTAVIA ALEXANDER wrote: It looks
like Germanic *xizd-o:n is actually related to *xaizd-o:n 'tow'
and Latin caesarie:s '(head) hair', Sanskrit késara- 'hair,
mane'.
ISHINAN: I am responding here
only to the latter part of the above paragraph, i.e. the linkage of
the Latin caesarie:s to the Sanskrit késara-
IMHO, this is a weird and
overreaching linkage between the Latin meaning of
caesarie: of long flowing luxuriant hair and the
Sanskrit késara- meaning of hair of the brow, mane of a horse or lion, a
fan for driving away flies and/or a fiber of a mango fruit.
Instead, I suggest the more
straightforward Classical Arabic khsl (*) which
means: a tress of a hair or plexus, a lock, a quantity of hair collected
together.
(*) a simple case of (l/r)