Re: Final voicing (3)

My own hypothesis is that, in the language from which PIE is derived, there was a word *T?SA, which meant 'body'; and from this, the middle (actually reflexive) endings in -*dh in IE are derived.

Patrick

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From: Richard Wordingham

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Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:52 PM

Subject: [tied] Re: Final voicing (3)

--- In cybalist@... s.com, "afyangh" <fournet.arnaud@ ...> wrote:
> Miguel Carrasquer Vidal wrote:

> > *-(o)-mV(s)- (dG)-ai
> > *-(o)-dGw-oi
> I don't understand what these forms stand for
> especially -dGw- ??

The idea is that, in some languages at least, dG > dH (or equivalent),
so yielding middle endings *-(o)mV(s)(dH) ai and *-(o)dHwoi, with for
example the following (partially remodelled) reflexes:

Greek:
1pl. -(o)me(s)tha
2pl. -(e)sthe

Sanskrit
1pl. -(a:)mahe
2pl. -(a)dhve

Richard.