On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 10:29:01 +0000, tgpedersen
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tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>Sanskrit has an endingless locative; without the -i we would get
>*-en > -*er. Voilà, locative in -er.
No, the -i has nothing to do with it. The Vedic locative is
usually udán.
Even if it were *udár, which it isn't, that wouldn't make
*-er a locative ending. The locative ending is -0; *-en,
*-r. is part of the stem.
Now the Germanic pronominal locatives in -r are a different
matter. There, the *-n- (*-r) is not part of the stem, so
the suffix *-r may well be an old fossilized locative
ending, or, which I prefer, the adposition *(h1)en "in"
agglutinated at a very early stage.
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Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
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