... But what's your basis for believing that all root presents are secondary? There're quite a few of them and they're well in evidence everywhere, including...
... root ... had to ... were ... I proposed the infix *-ye- was originally an independent verb *ye-, the thematic versions of *i- "go". Now suppose the infix...
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On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 15:18:27 -0700 (PDT), glen gordon ... In other words: there are no hysterodynamic neuters, m-stems or otherwise. ... I'm not ignoring that...
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:52:00 -0700 (PDT), Sean Whalen ... So it *is* a single rule. ... You say yourself that there *is* no intermediate stage. ... If you put...
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 00:36:35 +0000, etherman23 ... That isn't obvious at all. It it were a postposition, like is usually claimed, it would behave like a...
... Does the fact that the accusative plural *-ns (from *-m-s obviously) shows a contrary order make it any less the accusative singular with plural attached? ...
... Alright, I give up, but not exactly because of this point. Thinking more on this, I have to admit that if I should pursue this idea any further, there is...
... Don't you find it just a little bit too coincidental that there's a reconstructable particle *H2ebhi? ... Impossible unless the inflection is suffixed to...
... When you mean "root presents" are you talking about athematic presents? The vast majority of presents are thematic, no? So it would be even more outrageous...
... There is no issue. We regularly get IndoTyrrhenian *-es directly from Proto-Steppe *-it because *i becomes *e, not *ei in this case. Remember? You need an...
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:16:02 -0700 (PDT), glen gordon ... Yet another solution that yields circumflex -õ, but we need acute -o:. ... Sorry, but I completely...
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 12:56:32 -0700 (PDT), glen gordon ... It isn't. If the acc.pl. had been simply the acc.sg. with -s added, we would have had Skt.: acc.sg....
On Thu, 01 Sep 2005 22:22:18 +0000, etherman23 ... Latin ob is likely from *(h1)op(i) ~ *(h1)epi. I don't know a Lycian ebi- (I know a ehbi, but it means "his"...
... "Root presents" are those like *h1es-ti/*h1s-enti or *gWHen-ti/*gWHn-enti, where the stem = the root, without any affixes (excluding also the thematic...
... I want to apologise for stating the obvious. I hasten to admit that we all know the vowel stays because it's thematic (as in statives derived from thematic...
... A PIE postposition, yes, not a pre- or non- one. ... If we look at the PIE pre-/post- -verb/-positions themselves, they seemed to have suffixes -o, -i,...
... I may be the right person to answer that. This is regular, for the infix consonant always does that: it moves from its original prefix position to the...
... prefix ... position ... *dork^- ... the ... sometimes ... Might one explain the movement of the prefix instead as a form of vowel harmony and subsequent...
... Cf *ap-/*ab- "water" *peh3(i)-/*b-i- "(make) drink" (unless one wants to explain the /b/ as coming from *-pH3-). This alternation is unusual in PIE. ...
On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 15:39:02 +0000, etherman23 ... Final stops (after a vowel) are always voiced in Latin: *-t ... ======================= Miguel Carrasquer...