Torsten:
>Since there's no feminine in Anatolian, by your own reasoning the
>Semitic influence must have bypassed Anatolia and gone directly to
>the 'other IE' branch north of the Black Sea. Seems you killed your
>own bird too.
No, Torsten. Anatolian never developped the feminine like the other
branches because it took its own path during a slightly more archaic
point in IE.
Simply put, Anatolian went on its own path _before_ the feminine
developped from what was at that specific moment a collective
suffix. Anatolian does show the collective suffix however. The
other branches lingered on together, developping the feminine.
So, while in Anatolian we see *-ix being a collective suffix, it is a
feminine in other branches. Both *-ix and *-ax were collectives
that later became feminines because they both ended in *-x,
the collective suffix. Very simple to follow unless your name's
Torsten. Maybe if you take off your shades you'll be able to
read better.
= gLeN
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