Re: [tied] PIE suffix *-ro - 'similar-with'

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski <gpiotr@...>
wrote:

>
> alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> >
> > (outside of the topic: Skt. nábhas is derived (see Lubotsky) as

*nebh-

> > o- also Grk. néphos is derived (see Beekes) as *nebh-o- too (but

of

> > course o is not part of the PIE-root *nebh-)
>
> You must have misunderstood something. The noun is a showcase

example of

> an -es-stem neuter, with the nom./acc. in *-os (with a _zero_
> inflectioanl ending!), gen.sg. in *-es-os, etc. The stem-forming

suffix

> is therefore *-es-, alternating apophonically with *-os (cf. Slavic
> nebo, gen. nebese, Gk. nepHos, gen. nepHeos < *nebH-os, *nebH-es-

e/os).

> Your *nebH-o- simply doesn't exist.
>
> Piotr

It's ok now. Thanks Piotr.