Re: [tied] Talking of locatives [Was: Some thoughts...]

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...> wrote:

> On 04-10-05 12:36, Sean Whalen wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure I'm convinced, but if so might it
> > merely be a case of "double-locative" from -i-en?
> A
> > few common phrases could be lexicalized and
> perhaps
> > these would be generalized from to form some other
> > words. The example might even be a
> triple-locative
> > from *g^Heim-en-i-en (at each stage of addition
> the
> > whole phrase is lexicalized, repetition).
>
> But the first *-en- is in fact a stem-forming
> suffix, not a case ending,
> let alone a postposition

I think Greek forms are analogies, creating nom.,
etc. from g^Heim+en+(i): (here) in winter. Original
in Latin hiems.





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