Re: Prenasalization, not ejectives cause of Winter's law?

> > That's *-nu- (<- "now, new") and *-nw-ax-, you Vandal.
>
> Well, it isn't, except perhaps as a secondary association without a
> historical basis. The great productivity of *-n(e)u- is due to its

early

> appearence in factitives derived from adjectives in -u- (like
> *dHr.s-né-u-ti 'dare' from *dHr.s-ú- 'bold'; thus alreadu in Hittite).

...

> The original value of
> the infixal *n seems to have been causative/factitive (as in Hittite),
> and the "just present" semantics is a later development.
>

How do you know those adjectives are not part of a Caland system
and thus not particularly loyal to their *-u?


Torsten