Re: primary endings

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "elmeras2000" <jer@...> wrote:

> One thing I do not understand is why the accented variant, *é or

*H1é,

> is used as the augment in the meaning 'then' with distinct remote
> deixis, while the presumed enclitic (and it never is accented) *-(H1)

i

> rather means 'now'. Are the two not identical? Or can the difference
> in word order explain any part of this? Any ideas?

I rush to add myself the suggestion that *-(H1)i properly means "at
it": *gWén-m-i is then "I (am) a killer (who is) at it (i.e., now)".

Jens