Re: Res: [tied] Re: Latin Honor < ?

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 65982
Date: 2010-03-16

W dniu 2010-03-16 01:53, dgkilday57 pisze:

> All right, I stand corrected. Celtic *nemeto- it is. Nevertheless I see
> no particular advantage to presuming that *-esto- originated by
> conflation ("dialectal" or otherwise) of regular *-eto- with the
> non-final stem-form *-es-; perhaps I missed something earlier in the thread.

It accounts e.g. for the absence of o-derivatives od es-stems in PIE.
Adjectives in *-to- are usually deverbal rather than denominative, but
traces of *-t/s- alternations are found here and there.

Piotr