Me to Miguel:
>Of course, you may agree that *-r is a suffix but will avoid the
>idea that *-r < *-n. Alright. However, is there truely such
>a suffix *-r < *-r?
I still got no response so lemme prod further...
If *kWetwores is somehow from **kWet- + *-wr, this *-wr ending
is known to alternate with *-n-. Afterall, *-wr is a composite
suffix of *-w- and our pesky inanimate *-r (which derives from *-n).
What other *-r suffixes are there in IE except for *-e:r? However,
*-e:r doesn't belong here since the semantics would be too
problematic.
I don't see what your position is, Miguel. Do you think that
*kWetwor- is completely indivisable (in which case, we still have
your *n/*r-less *kWetesor to make sense of) or do you think that
*-r was a suffix, and if so, which one other than the very
alternating suffix that terminates *wodr, *?edwr and *yekWr?
- love gLeN
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