Re: PIE i- and u-stems again

From: mcarrasquer
Message: 47508
Date: 2007-02-16

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal <miguelc@>
> wrote:
> >
> > In any case, as you'll agree, my point was that you cannot just
> > stick an -n onto the thematic vowel, as Tortsen wants.
>
> Why is it that people start misspelling my name when they lose an
> argument?

I didn't misspell your name, I mistyped it.
I'll try to check for misspellings should anyone ever lose an
argument with you in the future.

> Before you started messing with PIE suffixes the difference
> between catus and cato: was more than an *-n. You are the one who is
> arguing that you can change a thematic into an n-stem by adding *-n,
> not I.

Here is what you said:
>>Is it true that you have stems suffixed in *-un, *-in, *-an which
>>becomes your various n-stems, and that /u/, /i/, and /a/ become the
>>ablaut vowel, which means thematic stems are really *-u, *-i, *-a
>>stems? Because if so, there exists an n-suffix.

I don't know what you wanted the n-suffix for, but there ain't any.