Re: Finnish KASKA

On 2008-02-22 01:08, Patrick Ryan wrote:

> One point I would take up if you feel like pursuing it with me.
>
> Thematic vowel reduced to -*I-?
>
> So, now the thematic vowel, *A, is realizable as *e, *o, *Ø, AND *i.
>
> In my opinion, this is flat-out wrong.

Can a fact be wrong? We often have thematic *-e/o- "replaced" by *-i- in
compounds, cf. *moi-no- 'exchange' --> *kom-moini- 'common, shared'
(Lat. communis, PGerm. *Ga-maini-), Lat. arma vs. inermis 'unarmed'.
What _is_ wrong is the realisation of the thematic vowel as zero. This
never happened in PIE.

Piotr