Re: [tied] Question on Albanian sy

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 42192
Date: 2005-11-22

alexandru_mg3 wrote:

> What are the forms of 'two' that contained an -ih1?

In a nutshell:

The nom.du. masculine was *dwo: (alternating with the disyllabic
"Lindeman form" *duwo:).

The nom.sg. neuter was *dwo-ih1 (~ *duwo-ih1).

Both forms are the expected duals of the vocalic stem *dwo-. The dual
ending *-ih1 is used with both thematic and consonantal neuter stems.

The feminine was originally the same as the neuter, but there are
branch-specific innovations such as Lat. duae (formally a feminine
_plural_ with the pronominal ending *-i).

The compositional form of the numeral was *dwi-.

Piotr