Re: [tied] People who do things in PIE

From: CeiSerith@...
Message: 15586
Date: 2002-09-18

In a message dated 9/18/2002 6:00:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, piotr.gasiorowski@... writes:


The most frequent agent suffix (among quite a few) seems to be *-tor- (fem. *-t(e)r-ih2), but with an intransitive verb like *jah2- (or rather *h1j-ah2-)I'd expect the participial suffix *-ont- to be used: *h1i-ont- is widely attested, and cf. Hittite ijant- 'sheep' (= 'walker' from ija- 'walk').



   Thanks, Piotr.

David Fickett-Wilbar