Re: [tied] The centum-word.

I said "collective", not "plural", since the *-h2 [-x] was
originally a collective-forming suffix. Inanimates had no
plural number proper in terms of grammatical agreement: the
forms in *-h2 were accompanied by verbs in the singular.
This is of course what Miguel means. It's likely that
*k^ont-h2 was, historically speaking, a double collective,
just as Modern English <child-r-en> is a doubly marked
plural.

Piotr

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From: "Glen Gordon" <glengordon01@...>
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Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 7:40 AM
Subject: [tied] The centum-word.


>
>
>> Miguel:
>> I don't think Piotr said plural *-x (-*h2), because no
such thing
> exists.
>
> Glen:
> No plural *-x? Say wha? Then why do we have *-k^ont-x?
[etc.]