Re: Greek -eti; Cowgill 1985

>
> In sum, I see no convincing argument in favour of a phonetic
> development -eti > -ei. The solution must be found
> elsewhere, and in my opinion that is in the phenomenon
> Cowgill discusses elsewhwre in the same volume in relation
> to Old Irish, where the present tematic third person is
> reconstructed as *-et (without -i), a phenomenon that is
> also found in Balto-Slavic, and perhaps also in Greek.

That means *-e-t-i and *-e-i are unrelated, or rather that the
diference between is caused by one containing the deictic -t-, the
other not (the idea of dectics in flexives is due to Schmalstieg).


BTW does that mean that Latin si: "if" (ni: si:, qua: si:) might be
from a subjunctive *h1s-yeh1-i > *sei (cf German 'es sei
denn' "unless")?


Torsten