Re: [tied] Neptune, Poseidon, Danu, etc.

From: Sergejus Tarasovas
Message: 7787
Date: 2001-07-04

--- In cybalist@..., "Piotr Gasiorowski" <gpiotr@...> wrote:
> One IE reconstruction of the "house" word is a consonantal stem
declined like this: Nom.sg. *do:m, Gen.sg. dem-s (the o-stem form
*domos is supposed to be younger).

Is there a plausible (or at least consistent) explanation of the
ablaut in that specific case? Stress seems not to help, laryngeals as
well. Again, does the consonantal stem indicate a former inactive
class? If so, why thematized and converted to active -> masculine?

Sergei