Re: [tied] PIE root *negWh- and the PIE suffix *-lo

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

>
> On 2006-01-13 23:08, alexandru_mg3 wrote:
>
> > Even is *[negWh-r]-ó-, the r could well be from an ancient -r(o)
> > similar to *nokW-t-is that contains 'inside' an ancient -t(o)-
>
> I just want to remind you that it was originally an acrostatic
> consonantal stem (*nokWt-s, gen. *nekWt-s), not an i-stem (*nokWti-

s,

> gen. *nokWtei-s). It follows that it can't contain an old *-to-,

since

> the thematic vowel was _never_ completely deleted by PIE

morphological

> processes. The *-t- must be of other origin, whatever it is.
>
> Piotr
>

I have an inverse opinion: that -t- (with a meaning 'completitude,
totality') precedes *to- formation; and that *to- was
constructed 'later' as 'that' *-t- + *-o 'ended' (or better -> the
mark of an 'ended action')

This distinct marker *-o would explain also why there are a lot of
suffixes ended in *-o : *-no , *-ro, *-lo, *-to-, *mo- etc...

In this case the 'originar' suffix is only -t-

Marius