From: Andrew Jarrette
Message: 55881
Date: 2008-03-24
If Olsen is right about the Hoffmann suffix being originally a verbal
noun ('load, charge, burden'), then of course the initial consonant
can't be detached from the rest.
What is the Hoffmann suffix? Is it -H2? And is it this suffix that he suggests means "load, charge, burden"? Or is that just the meaning of the archetypical o/eH2-stem *bhoros/bhoreH2? And what initial consonant do you mean? The initial consonant of *bhoros? Or of a suffix, whose form I cannot surmise?Andrew