Re: [tied] (unknown)

On Mon, 27 Nov 2000 01:56:32 +0100, Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
<mcv@...> wrote:

>My guess would be a "vrddhi collective" *[g^enh1]-o:s, secondarily
>regularized by extension with *-(n)i < *-(n)h2 in Sanksrit. Cf.
>Avestan -a:h (also in the n-stems: n.pl. *-ma:n (> -ma:m)).

Come to think of it, this might also explain the Lith. masc. nom. pl.
of the present [and past] active participles, if those can be derived
from old neuter plurals (i.e. collectives), which have been bothering
me with their lack of ending: -(i)a~, -i~, -a~ (*-(i)o(:)nt, *-i(:)nt,
*-a:nt).

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