Re: [tied] IE numbers

Piotr said a while back:

>BTW, *-w(e)r- is not necessarily *-w-(e)r-. It it were complex, we would
>expect the "missing link" *-w- to occur independently. Of
>course PIE has *-u- stems, but nomina obiecti in *-wr are not derived
>from them. For example, *h1edwr 'food' is not (unattested and
>semantically uninterpretable) **h1edu- + *-r but *h1ed- + *-wr.

There is the suffix *-wo-s, no? Although, this is thematicized.
How about *?edwo- (< **?edu-) + *-r?

- love gLeN


_________________________________________________________________
Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp