Re: [tied] Re: PIE comparative

From: Patrick Ryan
Message: 43002
Date: 2006-01-17

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From: "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...>
To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [tied] Re: PIE comparative


> On 2006-01-14 00:59, Miguel Carrasquer wrote:
>
> > And then this -i- from -ro-/-u- and presumably i-stem
> > adjectives was subsequently transferred to the others?
>
> o-stems also have archaic compositional variants with *-i (e.g. *dwi-),
> so no transfer is needed to explain "the others".

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Patrick:

If I understand the situation, this compositional variant in -*i is only
used in N+N compounds and _not_ in N+V. Is that correct?

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