Re: [tied] -h2

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Pavel A. da Mek" <a.da_mek0@...>
wrote:

> > I think that that suffix was never a "collective".
>
> Never?
> I do not know what it was in some Pre-Pre-PIE,
> but in the attested material it has clearly the same functions as

Semitic

> "-at",
> collective and feminine.
> (Maybe the feminine marker originated in honorific use of

collective marker,

> similarly to the honorific use of pl. "you" instead of sg. "thou".
> Or maybe the collective marker was originally used
> speaking about a pregnant woman.)
>

Or maybe she had a tape worm.

Could you cite any of those "clearly collective" examples?


Torsten