Re: [tied] Water, pre/postpositions, somewhat OT

> >It might have left
> >the initial /h/ in the oldest forms of <ibai>.
>
> So you're claiming <ibai> is from a verbal root? It can't
> be: the root would have to be *ba or *baC (with a consonant
> that isn't *n, *l, *r, *s or *z), but in a form *e-ba(C)-i,
> the *e- would not have turned into i-. That means the i-
> simply part of the root, as it is in the variant <ibarr>.
>

No, I didn't actually, but thanks for exploring that path. If *He- >
e-/i- is a verbal prefix, then of course it makes no sense to search
for it in <íbai>. Muddled thinking. I'll settle with an alternation
*ib-(*ip-)/*be- (which is pretty much the way that complicated-
looking water root appears in other language families.

Torsten