[tied] Re: PIE genitive plural *-o:m, a possible analysis

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

>
> On 2006-04-25 09:07, tgpedersen wrote:
>
> > Alternatively: the combining form *-ro:g^-s "-fixer" was less

common

> > than *re:g^-s "king".
>
> Any evidence that compositional *-ro:g^s 'fixer' ever existed?

No. But here are it's relatives:

>Nouns of
> the type *po:d-s 'foot', *nokWt-s 'night', *wo:kW-s 'voice', *do:m
> 'house', etc., are free-occurring lexemes, not bound forms.

Of course they are. I said they originated in bound forms.


Torsten