Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

From: Piotr Gasiorowski
Message: 10879
Date: 2001-11-01

Perhaps. But they must have been recycled as feminines anyway (as opposed to *udo:r), acquiring a final *-s in the process.
 
Piotr
 
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Miguel Carrasquer Vidal
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Battle of the cow

Couldn't these be collective ("broken plural") formations, with or
without *h2, of the type (pardon my pre-PIE):

*wá:dan (> wódr) -> coll. *w(a)dá:n(h2) > *udo:r  "water(s)"

So:

*dá:ru (> *dóru) -> coll. *d(a)rú:(h2) > *dru:-  "tree(s)"
*gú:wu (> *gWówu) -> coll. *gW(u)wú:(h2) > *gWu:-  "cow(s)"