Re: [tied] 1sg. -o: [was Re: IE Thematic Vowel Rule]

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 39608
Date: 2005-08-12

P&G wrote:

> Is it possible that the "colour of the thematic vowel" is not -o- at all,
> but -e-, and that it was actually *-e-h3?

Actually, if *h3 was distinctively voiced (note its voicing effect in
the Hoffmann compounds and in *pi-bh3-e-), one would expect the thematic
vowel to have become *o prior to, and independently of, the laryngeal
coloration. But I find it difficult to believe there was an *h3 in the
1sg. ending.

Piotr